Craig Murray sentenced to 8 months

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Craig Murray sentenced to 8 months

Post by Woodchopper » Tue May 11, 2021 3:52 pm

The prolific blogger and conspiracy theorist is to face jail time.
Craig Murray watched two days of the former First Minister’s trial in March 2020 from the public gallery of Edinburgh’s High Court and wrote about it on his website.

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Judges subsequently ruled that Murray, 62, a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, was in contempt of court relating to material capable of identifying four of the women accusing Mr Salmond of sexual abuse.

Sentencing Murray, Lady Dorrian said Murray knew there were court orders giving the women anonymity and he was “relishing” the potential disclosure of their identities.

At the virtual sentencing, Lord Justice Clerk Lady Dorrian explained that Murray deliberately risked jigsaw identification and that revealing complainers’ identities was “abhorrent”.

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Murray’s offending blog posts and tweets were written over a period of a month and remained up, unredacted, despite the blogger being told they could potentially lead to the identification of women who had made complaints about Mr Salmond, who was eventually acquitted of all 13 charges.

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Murray was initially given 48 hours to hand himself in to a police station, but after a challenge by his lawyer Roddy Dunlop QC, this was extended to three weeks so Murray can appeal the sentence, although he has to surrender his passport.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/c ... al-3232009

Unsurprisingly Murray is already claiming that its all a conspiracy designed to stop him appearing in court in Spain in support of the rapist Julian Assange.

Comments are rolling in in support of Murray, for example here, here,from some usual suspects, and there have been attacks on the judge.

But as with Assange, no one on the bonkers conspiracy theory left seems to care about the women who came forward.

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Re: Craig Murray sentenced to 8 months

Post by jimbob » Tue May 11, 2021 4:26 pm

Woodchopper wrote:
Tue May 11, 2021 3:52 pm


But as with Assange, no one on the bonkers conspiracy theory left seems to care about the women who came forward.
Indeed - I can't be the only person thinking, "Hmm he's apologised to one of the claimants for 'inappropriate behaviour' and several women have accused him, yet he's apparently innocent of sexual assault?"
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation

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