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John MacLennan was just an ordinary man. But for the tragedies that befell him, he would perhaps have worked and lived in blissful anonymity. He was not perfect, neither was he the scum of the earth. Like all of us, he had his good qualities, and his bad points too. There was nothing special about him. Even his sexual proclivities were nothing special, for there are many others like him.

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To those who did not know him he was just one person in a city of five million. To others, he was a colleague, a friend, a brother, a son. He loved his parents, and was loved in return. He, still in the prime of his life, has died; his parents, elderly and feeble, still live. To them, now living out their days in a remote village in Scotland, his memory still holds dear.

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Many things have been said by many about John MacLennan. One might even be forgiven for speculating that John MacLennan has been used by a few people as a pawn in a game. But in the final analysis, John MacLennan was just an ordinary man-not a pawn.