Controversy
Jan has ended up on several front pages of UK national newspapers, and made many television and radio appearances,. She was rumoured to be a possible participant in Big Brother 9 or I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. However, she has not appeared on Big Brother.
Most recently, Jan was reported extensively in the press, and very prominently in the News of the World, to have secured a £250,000 pay-out for "hurt feelings" from the MOD. She has received several threats of violence from serving soldiers against her because of the attendant publicity of this case but stridently denied the pay-out and currently has 3 complaints against various newspapers lodged with the Press Complaints Commission.
The Mail Online, UK / at 6:42 PM on 16 July 2008 confirmed in a retraction issued, that they "in an article on 31 May may have suggested that Jan Hamilton had sought £250,000 for hurt feelings in her industrial action against the MoD." and that they "are happy to clarify that Ms Hamilton neither sought nor received £250,000 for hurt feelings." Jan has insisted that they make a sizeable donation to service charities to compensate for the hurt done to the families of injured service personnel, whose pay-outs for wounds received were compared to the mythical 250K pay-out.
Jan is Currently a serving Police Officer for Strathclyde Police working in Glasgow
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