Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36153563)

…Pending investigation.

Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36153566)

Isn’t everyone released “pending investigation”? Unless they routinely close 2 year old cases at the exact moment they release the final person to be arrested, without the need to consult other agencies or higher ranking officers. On a Sunday at 5pm.

Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36153553)

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When the allegations first arose, the normal reaction would be to ask those likely in the know. From that, various people in the SNP should now know where the money went. Possible that the money wasn't ring-fenced and ended up in general funds. If that is the case, they should own up.

Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36153548)

Good news for Johnson though. Who’d have thought a former Prime Minister resigning as an MP in disgrace and a former First Minister arrested on the same weekend. I might frame both given how unlikely such a set of circumstances must be.

Would be interesting to know if such a similar trend of events has happened anywhere in the world over a single weekend in equivalent federal structures.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36193078)

Murrell has finally appeared in court for a bail hearing with regard to his embezzlement charge, almost a year later.

And Polis Scotland have - finally - admitted they’re no longer investigating Wee Nicola, or the former SNP party treasurer, Colin Beattie, over these matters.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2z4qq6zzo

Something about this stinks to high heaven - how it can take almost a year from charge to a bail hearing says nothing good about the way justice is handled in Scotland. And the fact that yet another aspect of the Scottish public sector can’t get its act together slightly reduces my level of sympathy for Nicola Sturgeon, who has been kept hanging on seemingly by the same institutional incompetence.

Obviously if she is not being charged with anything she - and we - should have been told about it a long time before now. But hey, she and her gang have run the ship aground whilst they were busy with their usual obsessions instead of keeping watch, so :shrug:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36193118)

It’s also worth adding that Sturgeon is lying when she says “there was never a scrap of evidence against me.” A file was sent to the Crown Office (the Scottish CPS), which in procedural terms only happens when there is sufficient evidence to do so. Police send off the file, someone else then decides if there is *enough* evidence for a charge.

So, yes, Nicola, there was in fact a whole dossier of evidence against you. Not enough for you to end up in court, but let’s not pretend there was never a reasonable suspicion that you were up to no good.

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36193237)

Try not to sound too gutted mate.

Nicola is innocent, end of :)

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36193280)

It’s also worth remembering that when Alex Salmond was acquitted, Sturgeon fulminated that just because a jury decided his actions did not amount to criminality, it didn’t mean that he didn’t do the things he’d been accused of. Ironic, really, that she’s demanding a level of understanding that she refused to give her old boss.