THE oil worker murder suspect accused of battering his colleague to death on a Qatar oil rig has been pictured for the first time. Scott Forrest, 43, is alleged to have snapped and attacked his roo…
“He was decent and funny. What on earth was going on over there?”It’s believed he demanded to be evacuated because of a family emergency and was allegedly going to hurl the remains over the side.A massive probe has been launched to try and piece together exactly what happened.
One worker said living standards on oil rigs in the Middle East are far lower than crews would find closer to home.“That doesn’t happen in Qatar. Those guys are all chucked in the same cabin at the same time. “It can be a pressure cooker if there’s a little disagreement and you’re stuck out there for weeks at a time. And then there’s the bed bugs and the terrible food.”Workers are dispatched all over the globe, sometimes at short notice, to fill the gaps.
The source added: “It’s fantastic money but in some cases you have no idea what you’re getting yourself into.“There is no excuse for what happened but I’m not surprised. It can be a hard, lonely life on the rigs.” All three men involved in the horror incident were all contractors for Film-Ocean, based in Ellon, Aberdeenshire.
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