By
Press Association 2021
Alex Salmond
A man who tweeted the names of women who gave evidence against former first minister Alex Salmond at his trial has been jailed for six months.
Clive Thomson, 52, carried out a “blatant and deliberate” breach of a contempt of court order banning the identification of the complainers by naming five of them on social media.
The former first minister was cleared of all 13 charges, including sexual assault, indecent assault and attempted rape, following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh last year.
At the High Court in Edinburgh on Thursday, Lady Dorrian said that Thomson knew the order had been made but decided to flout it, believing at the time of his second post that he might be safe from proceedings from contempt of court by being abroad.