Alex Salmond charged

EarthRod

Old rope is unwound, pulled apart and mixed with tar to make caulking to wedge into planked deck seams.

...But then I might be spinning a yarn

blackrod

I have nothing to add other than he is innocent until proven guilty. Apart from my personal opinion that he is an odious bigoted ****spatular.

krish

There's only one preferred candidate at AVF ...
I believe I'm the 'shill' for sadding the post

Sonic67

Alex Salmond trial 'will start next year'

The trial of former First Minister Alex Salmond on multiple charges of attempted rape and sexual assault will not begin until late January at the earliest, BBC Scotland has learned.

Mr Salmond was charged with a total of 14 offences on 24 January this year.

They include two charges of attempted rape, nine of sexual assault, two of indecent assault and a breach of the peace.

He strongly denies all of the allegations against him.

Sonic67

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Alex Salmond accused of sexual assaults on 10 women                                                                                                        The former SNP leader appears in court accused of carrying out a series of offences while he was first minister.                                                                                                                                                                                                        www.bbc.co.uk                                                                               
Alex Salmond has appeared in court charged with carrying out a series of sexual offences against 10 women while serving as Scotland's first minister.

Mr Salmond faced a total of 14 charges at the High Court in Edinburgh.

He denies all the allegations, which include one attempted rape, one intent to rape, 10 sexual assaults and two indecent assaults.

The offences are alleged to have happened between June 2008 and November 2014.

krish

great timing

Demon Luci

This point is misleading and untrue.

The court date was set well before any election was announced.

If the trial date had been moved because there is an upcoming election then that would have been political bias.

The justice system and political system are (rightly) separate.

Sonic67

From link in post 24 posted back in July.

BBC Scotland understands that the indictment in the case is not expected to be served until October, with an initial hearing in the case currently pencilled in for 18 November.  

krish

I don't know if you were replying to my "great timing" post, but if you were, you really read too much into it
- it really is great timing

Demon Luci

Sorry bud, had just been reading the usual Twitter posts from the Nats saying it was a Westminster stitchup to coincide with the election blah blah....