A Ministry of Defence Police evidence bag apparently from the Coulport nuclear base was found by volunteers clearing up the foreshore in Dumbarton last weekend.
Jim Crosthwaite, a member of the Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore, found the plastic bag last Sunday – it contained divers’ gloves found in Loch Long.
An MoD spokesperson said today: “We are aware of the reported finding of a Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) evidence bag, dated from 2007, washed up nearby the River Clyde.
“An initial review of MDP records suggest that the evidence was returned to its owner in 2009, so it is unclear at this stage how the evidence bag came to be found by the River Clyde recently.
“However, the Ministry of Defence Police takes any such losses very seriously and is undertaking a thorough investigation to determine the full facts/circumstances.”
Mr Crosthwaite found the bag while foreshore group members picked litter from both sides of Dumbarton Rock on Sunday.
It follows two other weird litter-pick finds by the group – in 2018 a python (deceased) and in 2019 a prosthetic leg.
Pictures by courtesy of the Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore.
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