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Thats it! Absolute shocker! Press conference by Tommy later today calling for public inquiry and retrial.

Gist is Crown did not introduce pertinent evidence as it would assist Tommys appeal case. Wonder why he wasnt called as a witness? Main prosecution witness one would have thought?!

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But weird (or perhaps not) that a lot of the MSM - BBC, ch4 etc are reporting, explicitly in their headlines that "Coulson cleared of lying"

No he feckin wasnt! He was cleared of perjury, as the judges ruled his lies weren't relevant to Tommys case.

But he still lied

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And when Coulson went to court - he promised to tell the whole truth - whether or not what he was asked was relevant to Sheridans conviction

Pictures of him outside court, smugly claiming it's been proven he's not a liar ?

Edit: just seen Brants post above. Aye

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You'll need to clarify that one...

A split of SSP members telling two different stories from the same meeting.

McNeilage's "framing" of Sheridan even though he's not seen in the footage.

Sheridan's versions of events.

Anvar Khan's evidence, Bob Bird etc etc

The whole trial from start to finish was a waste of public money. Should've put them all on Jeremy Kyle for a lie detector test. :lol:

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So it's not that he lied, he did. It's the relevance of the lie to the case. So you can lie under oath provided you can get a judge to rule it is irrelevant, didn't know that.

Nor did I. Extraordinary.
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Been looking into it, as far back as 2012 people(who seemed informed and fairly neutral) were saying it wouldn't be perjury , or would be hard to prove. So it seems the surprise i feel has came about from my ignorance of Scottish law.

http://lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/coulson-crossing-rubicon.html

https://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/andy-coulsons-evidence-at-the-sheridan-trial-the-legal-definition-of-perjury-in-scotland/

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