>>512764301
She's just a compulsive liar / deluded
Sturgeon also writes about the Scottish government's botched investigation into the complaints against Salmond.
In 2019, a judicial review had concluded that the process was unlawful, unfair and tainted by apparent bias.
He was later awarded more than £500,000 in legal expenses.
"In Alex's narrative, he wasn't just a victim any more," writes Sturgeon, "he was now a vindicated victim."
It later emerged that messages had been exchanged between women complainers - a Scots law term for someone alleging that they are a victim of crime - and also between SNP staff members.
Sturgeon writes that Salmond inaccurately "spun these as evidence of people conspiring to bring him down".
Rather, she said, the messages were between loyal supporters expressing "deep shock" and "women who considered themselves victims of his behaviour" who were "seeking support and comfort from each other."
Sturgeon accuses Salmond of trying to "distort and weaponise" genuine shock or trauma in a way that was "truly disgraceful," adding "it strikes at the heart of why I find it so hard to forgive him".
"A conspiracy against Alex would have needed a number of women deciding to concoct false allegations, without any obvious motive for doing so.
"It would then have required criminal collusion between them, senior ministers and civil servants, the police and the Crown."
This, she says, was "a fabrication, the invention of a man who wasn't prepared to reflect honestly on his own conduct."
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