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26th January 2011
 Tommy Sheridan has been jailed for three years today after having being found guilty on charges of perjury following the longest and most expensive perjury trial in Scottish legal history. The unprecedented political vendetta and this draconian sentence will provoke anger and disappointment among many thousands of working class people across Scotland.
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Socialist Party Scotland statement - 8th November 2010 Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s perjury trial is now in its sixth week and is certain to be the longest ever case of its kind in Scottish legal history. And that’s just one of many precedents that have been set in this brutal vendetta against Scotland’s best-known socialist. |
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Tommy Sheridan clearly seen as main left alternative Tommy Sheridan stood for Solidarity in the Glasgow North East election. Standing as a workers’ MP on a worker’s wage, Tommy came 5th out of 13 candidates, winning 794 votes which was 3.9% of the poll. He came well ahead of the Lib Dems, polling almost double their vote, and won more than double the vote of the Greens. Unfortunately, despite Solidarity supporting left unity discussions to try and avoid more than one socialist candidate both the Scottish Socialist Party and the Socialist Labour Party rejected any idea of a united left candidate and also stood in the election. |
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 Glasgow North East by-election
Ray Gunnion
Tommy Sheridan is standing in the Glasgow North East by election on November 12th. Standing as a “Workers’ M.P. on a Workers Wage” for Solidarity - Scotland’s Socialist Movement, Tommy contrasts strongly with the disgraced former incumbent, Michael Martin (now Lord Martin of Springburn), whose resignation as Speaker and as an MP, triggered this by-election in an area that has been represented by a Labour MP since 1935. |
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 Perjury trial to begin in January 2010
Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s trial on charges of perjury will begin on January 11th 2010 at the High Court in Glasgow. Repeated Freedom of Information requests from members of Solidarity forced Lothian and Borders police to reveal that their more than two year investigation into this case has cost at least £1.8 million in public money and usurped 52,000 hours of police officers time not to mention the public resources consumed by officials of the Scottish Crown office. One Lothian and Borders police officer was quoted as admitting that they were devoting the type of resources to this case as are normally assigned to a murder inquiry. All of this is apparently justified in an attempt to secure a prosecution of Scotland’s most recognised socialist. This case is increasingly being viewed as a political vendetta being conducted on a grand scale. To a long litany of legal precedents will now be added the longest perjury trial in Scottish legal history. The trial of Tommy and Gail Sheridan on a total of three counts of perjury has been scheduled to last for between 8 and 12 weeks in duration. The total legal costs involved are likely to run into millions. The first ever perjury investigation following a civil trial in Scotland became the most expensive perjury investigation in Scottish legal history and will now produce the longest and one of the most expensive legal cases ever. |
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 Tommy Sheridan and Gail Sheridan are to face a trial on charges of perjury. The Scottish Crown Office is to press ahead with a court case after one of the most expensive and lengthy police investigations in Scottish legal history.
Philip Stott The BBC confirmed that the police investigation has cost at least £1.5 million and has used up 47,000 hours of police officers' time. This makes it the most expensive perjury investigation ever in Scotland. |
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cialist Party Scotland and the CWI
