NATIONALIST FACES JAIL FOR NAMING COMPLAINANT
Daily Record|January 16, 2021
A SCOTTISH nationalist activist has been told he faces a possible prison sentence for naming the women who claimed they had been sexually assaulted by Alex Salmond.
JAMES MULHOLLAND
NATIONALIST FACES JAIL FOR NAMING COMPLAINANT

Clive Thomson, 52, admitted breaching a court order which prohibited the identification of the complainers who gave evidence at the former first minister’s trial last year.

Judges Lady Dorrian, Lord Pentland and Lord Turnbull heard how Thomson, of Rosyth, Fife, named the females on Twitter on two occasions in August last year. Lady Dorrian, who presided over the trial which resulted in Salmond being acquitted of all charges, passed the order during trial.

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