Thread by @DrMoragKerr

@Chrissiem18 @Wifty8 @SealeStu @GraemeHighland1 I understand it quite well I think. The original allegations were only intended to remain on file to be used to make Alex back off if he applied to be an SNP candidate again, to keep him out of elected office. So the fact that the evidence was thin/made up didn't really matter.

@Chrissiem18 @Wifty8 @SealeStu @GraemeHighland1 However Alex took them to court over the gerrmandered procedure they cooked up to do this, and won. In a fit of fury and revenge the ringleaders decided to involve the police and escalate the whole thing to a criminal prosecution. The original complainants didn't want this, ...

@Chrissiem18 @Wifty8 @SealeStu @GraemeHighland1 ... I believe because they knew their evidence wouldn't stand up in court. Especially woman H, who clearly invented the entire incident, not expecting it to be properly investigated. The police were then encouraged to find more incidents, under the Moorov doctrine where...

@Chrissiem18 @Wifty8 @SealeStu @GraemeHighland1 ... a number of similar incidents, independently attested-to, are held to corroborate each other. They also wanted to find complainants who weren't part of NS's wee woke inner circle. Despite a huge operation they found nothing and all they could do was include a clutch of...

@Chrissiem18 @Wifty8 @SealeStu @GraemeHighland1 ... very minor issues which some of NS's faithful acolytes were prepared to complain about. One of the main conspirators added herself in to this group to get anonymity, and this is how it got to the point that much evidence was disallowed, because her name couldn't...

@Chrissiem18 @Wifty8 @SealeStu @GraemeHighland1 ... be mentioned in any context, even if it didn't identify her as a complainant. None of this was much good in Moorov terms as a pat on the knee or a touch on the hair can't corroborate attempted rape, it just makes it look silly. Also, these women all knew each other and...

@Chrissiem18 @Wifty8 @SealeStu @GraemeHighland1 ... were discussing their complaints with each other, so they weren't independently attested as required by Moorov. I understand that the hope of the conspirators was that if the main charges failed (as they were likely to), the jury would find AS guilty on one or two minor...

@Chrissiem18 @Wifty8 @SealeStu @GraemeHighland1 ... charges as a sort of "split the difference" sop to the prosecution. Then it would be possible to monster him as a convicted sex criminal and basically job done. (They're still trying that even though he was acquitted.) Anyway, that's how I see it.