Tommy and Gail Sheridan arrive in Glasgow High Court. Sheridan has accused of mounting a vendetta against him the police and law enforcement. Photo: Danny Lawson/PAThe former Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan was accused of perjury to the police and prosecution of Assembly of a "vendetta" against him by lies and false evidence to it.
Sheridan said the jury in the High Court in Glasgow, that his "Life was at stake," If you deliberately lying one him on oath as he 200,000 £ won a libel suit against the news of the world in the year 2006 found guilty after it accused him of adulterous Affairs and visiting sex clubs.
To sum up its defense case after his 11-week trial for perjury, said Sheridan, he was completely innocent but was "tracked" after the prosecution of a "pathetic" case against him put up.
He told the jury of 12 men and two women: "Ladies and gentlemen, this was a fair and balanced prosecution from the outset." "And, ladies and gentlemen, we know that the Moon from cheese is made."
He said that during the perjury not study the persecution of the accusations against him "like snow off a dyke" disappeared as it needs emerged with independent evidence could be supported or that key witnesses had lied Crown.
The study on 4 October, Sheridan faced two main fees, which had 18 sections. His wife Gail Sheridan, 46, was next to him in the dock before other charges of lying under oath, but these were withdrawn by the Crown last Friday. The case against Sheridan itself was reduced to only one charge with six sections.
Alex Prentice, QC, the Prosecutor attempt today that the number of charges were told "clipping" case "strong, focused," to enable.
Sheridan, a team of up to 24 detectives from Lothian and borders police said spent had 52,000 hours compiling the perjury case against the couple, in a case coming three years before the Court had taken. But case had substantial parts of law enforcement "dropped like confetti" by the Crown.
The power had also "baseless and malicious" charges leveled that have been deleted after is proven false - Gail Sheridan had stolen alcoholic miniatures of their former employer, British Airways.
Claims about his "three in a romp bed" with prostitutes in the moat House Hotel in Glasgow "as a House of cards in the wind after the first prosecution witness, Matt McColl, collapsed" disintegrate after ten minutes to date.
The assertion that Sheridan had tried to the current SSP leader Colin Fox in lying bribe had withdrawn after the persecution accepted the claim had no independent evidence.
During an address the jury that almost three hours lasting Sheridan accused many of his former allies of being liars. He said that his former friend, George McNeil package, had been "bought and paid", by the NoW if he gave you a video that allegedly recorded Sheridan confess that he had visited the sex clubs.
He had nine defence witnesses on oath swear that it friends and political associates wasn't in the video, including his sisters, life. This was the "single most important piece" Crown evidence failed to prove but tracking if the video was made, and have failed, produce expert witnesses it was his voice or video was binding to confirm.
"You're invited is absolutely huge decisions that affect my life; goes" You are invited to determine that the voice on this tape is me and you're going to send me to jail, ", he said."
McNeil is a twice convicted burglar, said Sheridan. "For ten times the annual salary of an average employee, a former sentenced home breaker would say anything for £ 200,000."
The Crown had too no forensic or scientific evidence was that the handwritten notes, the alleged recording hit him his adultery at a Scottish Socialist Party in November 2004 that authorisation were authentic. There was no forensic evidence about your calls and text messages he had allegedly main witnesses.
Instead, ignored the police evidence of his diary serious doubts about an alleged meeting raised where the charges he tries, the current SSP leader Colin Fox are in his name.
Sheridan added important prosecutions testify from his former party which for perjury investigation SSP, his alleged lover and senior journalists that NoW had been repeatedly conflicting evidence on oath and police interviews crucial evidence, but none of you had or calculated were.
A senior now Executive, Douglas Wight, then the paper of Scottish news editor on oath to the libel trial in 2006 on his paper's payments to prosecution witnesses had lied, Sheridan said in court.
Compared to many prosecution witnesses, his defence witnesses not "rant and rave" the stand or "spew bile" as answers. Instead give reliable evidence "that supported my innocence," said Sheridan.
Address of the jury will continue tomorrow.
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