By A FURIOUS e-mail rant directed at bosses of a community radio station ended up in the in-boxes of hundreds of stunned listeners – sparking chaos at their Edinburgh based HQ.
Leith FM bosses were accused of overworking volunteers, ignoring alleged death threats from staff and trying to sweep claimed bust-ups between presenters under the carpet in the astonishing message.
And in an attack on station boss John Paul McGroarty, former presenter Dave Woods savaged him, saying: “I’d rather have Charles Manson, Jack the Ripper and Hitler as friends before you”.
Actor and writer Woods, 41, who no longer works at Leith FM, sent the 3,500 word e-mail to McGroarty on August 14.
But someone subsequently forwarded the e-mail from McGroarty’s private e-mail account to around 500 addresses on the station’s mailing list on August 26.
Two days later the board at Leith FM was forced to send out a reply message to all the e-mail recipients saying the “malicious message” did not originate from them.
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