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RAPE Crisis Scotland is “deeply concerned” that MSPs asked to see messages between women who had made harassment complaints against Alex Salmond.
On Tuesday, the Holyrood committee probing the Scottish government’s botched handling of harassment complaints against the former first minister decided not to publish the communications, which were handed to it by the Crown Office.
Parliamentarians had demanded last month that the material be passed to the inquiry, which follows Mr Salmond’s acquittal of all sexual offence allegations made against him last year.
Rape Crisis Scotland published a statement on behalf of those who had complained, making clear that there was “no conspiracy” against Mr Salmond but “bonds of friendship and support” between the women involved.
The group said that it was “deeply disturbed” that the Crown had “felt it appropriate to break the trust we placed in it” by sharing the “personal communications between friends … during a traumatic time.”
