A Highland community council applied for planning permission...

A Highland community council applied for planning permission to erect a 30ft set of gallows to mark the 250th anniversary of the wrongful hanging of James of the Glen.
Ballachulish and Glencoe Community Council wants to erect the temporary structure at Cnap a' Chaolais (knoll of the narrows) where on November 8, 1752, James Stewart, James of the Glen, was hanged for the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure, also known as the Red Fox.
He had been shot dead while riding through the Wood of Lettermore within a mile of Cnap a' Chaolais. Two bullets had gone through his back, yet it was widely known that James could not have pulled the trigger.
The murder convulsed the 18th-century British establishment and provided inspiration for the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
James was hanged in the Campbell capital of Inveraray for being an accessory to a murder for which nobody was arrested or charged. Now the community council and the North Lorne Civic Trust are preparing a programme of events to mark the injustice, including a commemoration service on or near November 8.
James's hanged corpse was left on a gibbet for more than four years, guarded and specially reinforced with iron plates in case anyone tried to cut him down. His bones dropped off one by one and were collected by a kinsman so he could be buried.