Where’s the Gong Martin?

Those of you who are from the UK, will be aware that an important part of the British system is the Honours system, whereby the Prime Minister of the Day either directly or via the Queen bestows various honours on the Great and the Good known colloquially a Gongs.  These start off with the MBE, then if you are a really serious do gooder like say, for example Jimmy Savile you might get an OBE. If you are willing to advertise dog food such as say Clement Freud you might even get a KBE and get to call yourself Sir like his chums Cyril Smith and Jimmy Saville.

As in so many things in the Maddie case besides the things that did happen, we also need to look at the things that should have happened but didn’t.  So, besides the promotions of mediocrities such as John Lowe (at the FSS) and Stuart Prior of the LP (who went on to be appointed Assistant Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire police), we need to question the treatment of the good guys such as Martin Grime.  Surely Grime might be a popular candidate for such an honour?  10 years of service with the British Army followed by 22 years with the South Yorkshire Police, then setting up his own firm, recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the field of Police Dog training and canine forensic searches.  Helping solve a string of high-profile cases and finally de facto cracking the most high-profile of all British Missing Person’s cases.  Yet it seems to be all quiet on the gong front at Chez Grime.  Is that yet another coincidence or further evidence of the way the cookie crumbles back in Blighty?