Alex Salmond cleared of sexual assault charges

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Alex Salmond has been cleared of committing a catalogue of sex offences against nine women while he was Scotland’s First Minister in a historic criminal trial.

The 65-year-old former first minister has been acquitted of 13 alleged sexual offences, including one attempted rape against women who either working for the Scottish Government or within the SNP between June 2008 and November 2014.

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