Gaffe

I have previously written about the problems besetting the local health service. The senior management is at total loggerheads with its own staff, its own board and its own people. The press officer recently resigned. A new one was taken on last week, and NHS Western Isles was very pleased to have him on board. I won't name names, but would you like somebody as press officer who has this gaffe on his record:

He was sacked by the [Glasgow] Herald after he wrote Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman would not have died at Soham had their parents "kept the Lord's day".

Factual and Historical Footnote: A few years ago, the two girls named above were murdered by a school caretaker in his home, on the premises of the primary school they attended in Soham, Cambridgeshire. He hid their corpses. The culprit infamously expressed concern about their disappearance, although he had stagemanaged everything himself. Child murders tend to stick in the UK public memory, and this one has had that effect. For reference: the so-called Moors Murderers, who murdered children and buried them on a moor east of Manchester in the 1960s could never be released from prison, as they were liable to be lynched on sight.
NHS Western Isles probably thought that someone who was anxious to keep the Lord's Day would go down well with the people of Lewis and beyond. Yes, people are religious here. But they love kids too. Dear me, what a gaffe.