Gwen I admit to being a fan of Alex,30 years ago he was a very clean cut good looking young man.Happily married to his lovely wife Moira who is 17 years older then him.
the amount of abuse he got from unionists about marrying an "older woman" was disgusting .They are still married 40 years this year .
He was also the man who got the SNP most of the way to where they are today.
Nicola was his friend and he was her mentor for decades
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Despite what someone said upthread,the Scottish Government aka the "crown Office" is not an independent body ,its run by Westminster and operates within the rules and for the Westminster /unionist government who have in very recent times increased their employees from 60 ...thats SIXTY to over 500 and built a new shiny unionist office in Edinburgh clad in Union flags costing hundreds of millions of £. With mainly imported staff.
Lesley Evans ,employee of said Crown Office went after Alex when WM felt he was too big a threat to the union,they had tried to pin something /anything on him for a long
time .
Ms Evans came up with the sexual abuse route ,asked for complains about his behaviour to be sent to her and out of the 400 people she had asked for input from she got the however many ..12 or so? That went to court .They were assured of privacy ,that their names wouldn't be released whatever way it went .
As the accusations were false of course he was aquitted but somewhere along the way he believed Nicola was involved in the whole shebang.She says she absolutely wasn't and I believe her.She wants her day in court the committee wont call her ,she gets dates then they cancel .Its a very sad game with peoples lives.
On the accusers ,none of them left their jobs and continued to work for Alex even after the date they said the abuse occured....some even changed jobs to get back to his team .Their names and any information that could identify them have been redacted on the statement made by Alex .
Now I'm out.