HowTo: identify readonly/locked files in LightRoom

Dear community member.
If you are like me, you will sometimes mark (Nikon calls it "locking" - at the file system level the image is simply flagged as read-only) a photograph in the field. The idea being that:
you don't want to accidentally delete a great photograph from the camera, and
marking the photograph makes it easy to identify the real-winners in post production.
As far as I can tell, there is no straightforward way of asking Lightroom:
"only show me the photographs that have been marked read-only", or
"please label the read-only files red"
I thought this would be a relatively straightforward task, but for the life of me I can't find out a simply way of doing this. Have I missed something, or is this simply not supported by Lightroom?
Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated!
ADDITIONAL CONTEXT
Nikon D7100
Lightroom 4.4
I copy my photographs from the memory card to the hard disk using a memory card reader. The files are then "added" to Lightroom, thus keeping the readonly file attribute.

You're right: Lightroom does not support this feature, and so it requires a script or plugin.
Perhaps the best way is to use a simple script (not a plugin) I wrote - it's free:
Script name: 'Select Read-Only Photos'
Screenshot:
Download here: robcole.com - MiscLrScripts
PS - I think John Beardsworth also has something that will do it.
Rob

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