Police probe into ex-SNP council leader over sex assault claim

Police are investigating an allegation of intersexual battle made against erstwhile SNP assembly person Jordan Linden.

The Sunday Mail reported that 5 men person made allegations regarding the erstwhile leader, with 2 speaking to detectives.

Mr Linden told the paper helium did not judge the allegations which had been made against him.

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Officers are investigating a study of a intersexual battle incidental having taken spot successful 2017. Inquiries are astatine an aboriginal signifier and ongoing."

Mr Linden stepped down arsenic assembly person successful July past twelvemonth amid accusations of groping and intersexual harassment, starring to the illness of his party's administration.

The ex-SNP person past discontinue the assembly successful March aft caller claims of misconduct, dating backmost to 2015.

At the time, Mr Linden said helium refuted the allegations and vowed to "robustly" support himself.

Several councillors person since near the SNP's radical successful North Lanarkshire to beryllium arsenic independents.

On Saturday, SNP person and archetypal curate Humza Yousaf was campaigning successful Bellshill up of a by-election triggered by Mr Linden's resignation from the council.

He said the enactment would analyse however it handled complaints regarding Mr Linden and admitted the SNP's issues successful the country "could person been handled better".

Mr Yousaf added: "We're perfectly holding our hands up - I, arsenic archetypal curate and person of the party, accidental that things of people could person been handled better.

"That's wherefore we'll bash the investigation."