Craig Murray

Galloway: The SNP framed Salmond

Galloway: The SNP framed Salmond

In a livestream broadcast on All for Unity’s (the new name for Alliance for Unity) social media channels, George Galloway doesn’t mince his words when talking about the Sturgeon-Salmond scandal. 

Comparing Sturgeon’s government to a banana republic, he starts by talking about the malicious fraud prosecution of administrators over the Rangers bankruptcy by the Crown Office.

£24 million of Scottish taxpayers money is about to be paid out because of a malicious prosecution mounted by the Scottish Law officer. And the man who is going to apologise for it , sits in Nicola Sturgeon’s cabinet.

Salmond: 'Nicola needed a stake through my heart'

Salmond: 'Nicola needed a stake through my heart'

Today, Craig Murray, who is on trial for contempt of court, accused with revealing the identities of Salmond's accusers, submitted evidence in his defence. Extracts of his major revelations follow...

Read the full statement here

After a preamble about his background as an ex-ambassador, diplomat and author, Murray says:

'9. I discovered with a high degree of certainty that the leaker was Liz Lloyd, Chief of Staff to Nicola Sturgeon.'

'12. Alex Salmond, with whom I had only very slight prior acquaintance, invited me to meet him in the George Hotel in Edinburgh. Here, for the first time, he told me that Nicola Sturgeon had been behind the process designed to generate false accusations against him. He said as well as Mackinnon and Evans, Liz Lloyd was responsible for the actual orchestration.'