Labour links to gangsters and not a word on the BBC

Imagine the fuss if a Conservative shadow minister had had a known 'gangster' attend a fundraiser; the BBC would have been all over the story for days. However when Jim Murphy is similarly implicated; not a whisper. Here's part of what the Herald Scotland had to say:

'A convicted gangster has appeared at a Labour Party election fundraiser for Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy.

Lewis Rodden – known as Scooby, and who was jailed in 2005 for his part in an extortion campaign – was seen at the dinner last month.

Mystery surrounds Rodden’s presence after it emerged that the organiser of the event, Labour councillor and Strathclyde Police Authority member Betty Cunningham, is on first-name terms with him.'

Here's what the BBC have to say on the matter:

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