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To: maceng2 who wrote (40299)	7/22/2011 7:43:16 PM
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An excellent source of information on the case. "The Sun" newspaper, Scottish edition. thesun.co.uk Sheridan maintained his innocence throughout the trial, claiming he was the victim of a "vendetta" by the police and a "conspiracy" involving the News of the World and colleagues within the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP). He claimed that 16 former allies were lying as part of a "political civil war" when they told the court that he had admitted at a 2004 meeting to having been to Cupid's swingers' club in Manchester. Presenting his own defence, Sheridan called Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor and Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-communications chief, to give evidence. But the High Court jury ultimately convicted him of five of six allegations in a single charge of perjury against him, relating to his evidence during the civil case. In doing so, they found him guilty of lying about an affair with SSP member Katrine Trolle in 2005 and a trip to Cupid's with her, Andrew McFarlane, Gary Clark, and News of the World journalist Anvar Khan on September 27 2002. Judge Lord Bracadale said: "By pursuing and continuing to pursue a defamation action, you brought the walls of the temple crashing down not only on your own head but also on your family and your political friends and foes." He praised Sheridan as a "hard-working" politician who used his "undoubted powers of oratory" to further the causes he believed in, and said his campaign against the poll tax and abolition of warrant sales would be a part of the "fabric of Scottish social and political history". A News of the World spokesman said: "This is a just outcome to a long and complex criminal case. Today's sentence also provides closure for the many witnesses who very bravely exposed their own lives to public scrutiny when they testified to Mr Sheridan's guilt. "Mr Sheridan has been jailed for lying to a court to secure victory when he sued the News of the World for defamation in 2006. At the time he was an elected member of the Scottish Parliament. "As we have made clear, we have an appeal lodged against that defamation verdict and we now look forward to that appeal succeeding in Scotland's Court of Session." As one can imagine I expect this case will NOT be going quietly into the night. It looks as if somebody has been telling porky pies under oath, but not just Sheridan who was spit roasted over the affair in the press and in the Scottish courts, and now the police and legal profession in general need to have the matter put right. -g-