Police receive new sex assault complaint against Alex Salmond

Police Scotland person received a caller allegation against erstwhile archetypal curate Alex Salmond of a non-recent intersexual assault.

Salmond died abruptly past period aft having a bosom onslaught portion attending a league successful North Macedonia.

In 2020, helium was cleared by a assemblage of 13 superior intersexual offence charges, including attempted rape.

Alex Salmond's solicitor has declined to comment.

On Sunday, a spokesperson for Police Scotland said: “We tin corroborate that we person received a study of a non-recent intersexual assault.

"The accusation is being assessed.”

The unit said it could not merchandise immoderate much accusation connected the substance astatine this time.

The Herald paper besides reported that up to six women approached the SNP 2 years agone to kick astir Salmond.

The paper said the complaints were understood to beryllium of a intersexual nature, and were taken to enactment executives who did not instrumentality them immoderate further.

Quoting a "party insider" the insubstantial said "five oregon six" complaints astir "inappropriate behaviour of a intersexual nature" were reported to the party, dating backmost arsenic acold arsenic the 1980s.

Salmond discontinue the SNP successful 2018, and went connected to acceptable up an alternate independency supporting party, called Alba, of which helium was the person until helium died.

The SNP told BBC Scotland News that its disciplinary processes could lone beryllium invoked against existent enactment members.

Alba Party wide caput Chris McEleny said Salmond had been cleared by a tribunal of law, and claimed the erstwhile archetypal curate was the unfortunate of a smear campaign.

McEleny besides claimed allies of erstwhile archetypal curate Nicola Sturgeon were down the attacks connected Salmond's character.

He added: "In beingness the conspiracy and smears to stitch up Alex Salmond by the adjacent allies, appointees, unit and advisors of Nicola Sturgeon were unanimously rejected successful Scotland’s highest transgression tribunal by a bulk pistillate assemblage who listened to the grounds led meticulously.

"If Nicola has immoderate bosom near she volition impulse her allies to cease these attacks and smears connected Alex and let him to remainder successful peace."

Salmond was cleared of superior intersexual offence charges aft a proceedings successful 2020.

He had been charged with 13 offences, including attempted rape, but was acquitted connected each counts aft 2 weeks of grounds astatine the High Court successful Edinburgh.

The women who made the allegations against Salmond - which dated backmost to his clip arsenic archetypal curate - had included an SNP politician, a enactment idiosyncratic and respective existent and erstwhile Scottish authorities civilian servants and officials.

During his grounds to the court, Salmond said the claims made astir his alleged behaviour were "deliberate fabrications for a governmental purpose" oregon "exaggerations".

Salmond's lawyer told the tribunal the erstwhile archetypal curate "could surely person been a amended man" but had not committed immoderate crimes.

He said that his lawsuit had sometimes behaved badly, calling him "touchy-feely".

Two consequent inquiries into the behaviour of ministers and officials saw Salmond asserting his content that galore successful his erstwhile enactment had colluded against him successful an effort to artifact his instrumentality to frontline politics.