A Scottish Government coronavirus adviser ignored Nicola Sturgeon’s advice and stayed at his island holiday home hours before lockdown restrictions were put in place.Professor Mark Woolhouse, 60, has angered residents on Lismore by temporarily moving to the tiny Hebridean island with his family from Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh University epidemiologist sits on the First Minister’s Covid-19 taskforce. It comes just a week after Scotland’s chief medical officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, was forced out of her job after being spotted at her second home in Fife while telling the rest of the country to stay in the house.
One islander, who didn’t want to be named, said: “It’s just another example of hypocricy."Locals in Lismore are far from happy