Risk Assessors

John is a retired Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and was a medical member of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland until November 2018.  He was on the specialist register for forensic psychiatry and on the locum bank with Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board and undertook locum work until 2015. Dr Baird was a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales for ten years and for three years thereafter had a role with them as a Former Active Specialist Member.  He has extensive experience of risk assessment across various clinical forensic settings and providing written and oral evidence for the Court. 

Accreditation Period: 21 December 2009 to 21 June 2025
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B and 210D of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Mrs Campbell is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist and has been an Accredited Assessor since 2008. She has worked directly with offenders for over twenty-one years, primarily in a prison setting, with both male and female offenders and is currently Head of Psychology for HMP & YOI Grampian.  A key focus of her work is risk assessment and risk management of individuals convicted of violent and sexually violent offences, who are high risk and complex cases.  Allyson has worked with individuals with substance abuse issues, mental health issues, issues related to brain injury, personality issues and with learning difficulties / disabilities.   

Accreditation Period: 15 December 2008 to 14 December 2024
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Professor Cooke is a Chartered Forensic and Chartered Clinical Psychologist. He was Head of Forensic Clinical Psychology for the Greater Glasgow Primary Care NHS Trust and a Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University. Professor Cooke has been actively involved in the study of violence and personality disorder since 1985 and has published widely in this area. He was a member of the Committee to Review the Treatment of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders (MacLean Committee), chairing the sub-committee considering methods of risk assessment. He has given evidence in cases and inquiries where the issue of violence risk has been central, including Lord Cullen’s Inquiry into the shooting at Dunblane and has provided workshops on violence risk assessment and psychopathic personality disorder worldwide. 

Accreditation Period: 18 August 2008 to 17 August 2025
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B and 210D of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Dr Doig is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Clinical Lead for NHS Tayside Forensic Mental Health Service. His work involves the assessment and treatment of mentally disordered offenders who have a history of serious violence and/or sexual offending.  He has experience of working in this role in high, medium and low secure units in Scotland as well as the community. He has been a visiting Consultant Psychiatrist to a number of prisons across Scotland. He regularly prepares risk management plans for restricted patients and provides reports addressing risk of harm to others as evidence for the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland and the Parole Board for Scotland. 

Accreditation Period: 15 November 2010 to 14 December 2023
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B and 210D of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Dr Flynn is a Forensic Clinical Psychologist and the Forensic Network Clinical Lead for MAPPA & Serious Offending.  She also chairs the National MAPPA health Liaison group and the MAPPA clinical forum.  Formally, Dr Flynn was Head of Forensic Clinical Psychology within NHS Forth Valley for 7 years. As well as providing similar input to MAPPA, Dr Flynn had a remit managing the clinical psychology provision to the three National prisons in that area and overseeing forensic services in both hospital and community settings. Dr Flynn was also involved with a number of Forensic Network working groups and delivered training on behalf of the Network and the School of Forensic Mental Health. 

Accreditation Period: 14 March 2022 to 13 March 2025
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B and 210D of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Mrs Holmes is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist with experience of working with high risk, mentally disordered offenders for over 20 years.  She is currently the Head of Psychological Services within the Scottish Prison Service and leads on a number of the SPS Psychological Services strategies, including risk assessment and risk management and the management of those subject to an Order of Lifelong Restriction.  Her role has primarily been concerned with risk assessment, risk management and treatment interventions. Ms Holmes provides risk assessment and risk management reports for individuals within HMPPS in England and Wales.  She also provides expert advice to the Parole Board for England and Wales on appropriate treatment and risk management pathways. 

Accreditation Period: 20 November 2006 to 19 November 2022
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B and 210D of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Professor Johnstone is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, and an Associate Fellow of The British Psychological Society.  Having worked across all types of forensic mental health services, she now works independently with high risk populations and as a consultant to secure care, residential care and National Health provisions in Scotland and England. Professor Johnstone is experienced in the preparation of highly complex risk assessments. In addition to clinical and professional practice, she has maintained an academic career and published in peer-reviewed journals and edited books on many topics relating to forensic clinical psychology. Professor Johnstone has been providing opinions to the Courts across her career and has experience in giving written and oral evidence in the criminal and civil settings. 

Accreditation Period: 19 November 2007 to 18 November 2023
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B and 210D of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Dr Marshall is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with over 25 years of clinical/forensic and expert witness psychological experience. Formerly, Head of Psychological Services at the State Hospital, John has recently decided to work full-time independently. He has an extensive child and adult clinical forensic psychology background and has published research in many areas of forensic psychology including risk assessment, personality and neurodevelopment disorders. John has experience providing expert evidence in high-profile criminal trials concerning fitness to plead and risk assessment. He is an accredited expert witness at the International Criminal Court at The Hague to assess victims and accused persons. 

Accreditation Period: 16 April 2012 to 17 April 2026
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B and 210D of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Marc has been Head of (Forensic) Psychology at four UK prisons.  In 2018 he became an Associate Professor in Forensic Psychology at Edinburgh Napier University, where he developed a new Masters programme in Applied Forensic Psychology, which is now accredited by the BPS. Marc has worked extensively with male perpetrators of general violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual violence. He has overseen and has been involved in the delivery of accredited treatment programmes for perpetrators of intimate partner violence, general violence, sexual offending, and addiction-related offending. Marc has also developed and delivered individualised offending behaviour interventions for people who were unable to access group-based programmes.  

Accreditation Period: 14 March 2022 to 13 March 2025
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Naveel is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist who has gained considerable experience assessing and treating adult males within a high security custodial setting. For over 20 years he has worked across two jurisdictions, gaining much of his expertise assessing and providing interventions for those in custody who have caused harm by their violence. He is currently the Head of Psychology at HMP Perth and the National Psychology Lead for case management; informing policy and practice in relation to the risk/need assessments and sentence planning.  He is trained in the application of a number of risk, cognitive, personality and psychometric tools. He has received training and professional development in the provision of Schema Therapy, Brainspotting and Trauma Processing.   

Accreditation Period: 14 March 2022 to 13 March 2025
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Lorna is a Chartered and Registered Forensic psychologist and has been in practice since 2006. She started her career in the private sector in 2006 and in 2014 moved to the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). Lorna currently holds the position of Head of Psychology in HMP Shotts.  Lorna leads on risk assessment practice within the SPS, which includes developing training in risk assessment for other psychologists within the service. She also works independently in private practice, doing risk assessments at the request of the Parole Board for England and Wales which she has done since 2017. She is trained and experienced in a wide variety of risk assessment tools, personality assessments and cognitive functioning assessments.   

Accreditation Period: 28 March 2022 to 27 March 2025
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Fiona is a Consultant Clinical Forensic Psychologist and has over 33 years of continuous employment in the NHS assessing violence risk, and treating mentally disordered offenders. She has worked in mental health and criminological settings within the Scottish Prison Service and forensic mental health settings. Mrs Munro has had specific specialist training in the assessment and management of mental health problems and violence risk and used the HCR-20 and RSVP in everyday clinical work over many years. She has extensive experience in personality disorder assessment and used a variety of violence risk guides across her career. 

Accreditation Period: 15 November 2010 to 14 November 2023
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B and 210D of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)

Rachel is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist.  As an independent practitioner, she completes risk assessment reports for courts, solicitors and the prison service. She is also a panel member of the Parole Board for England and Wales. Prior to working independently, she worked for the Scottish Prison Service for 16 years. Rachel was a Principal Psychologist for 6 years with responsibility for the psychological oversight and strategy for Sexual Offenders, OLR prisoners and risk assessment work.  Her main areas of speciality are assessing the risk of and treating sexual offenders and assessing the risk of violent offenders and males who commit intimate partner violence. Rachel is fully trained and competent to use forensic psychological risk assessment tools. 

Accreditation Period: 19 January 2009 to 16 May 2025
Accreditation Purpose: To undertake assessments under Sections 210B of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003)