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Alex Salmond cleared on all allegations of sexual assault after 11 day trial

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Scotland’s former first minister Alex Salmond has been acquitted on a number of sexual assault charges including one of attempted rape.He has been standing trial for the past 11 days at the High Court in Edinburgh and a jury have cleared him on all charges.He has been found not guilty on a charge of attempting to rape a woman identified as Woman H at Bute House in 2014.Salmond alleged there had been consensual sexual encounter on a different occasion with Woman H but denied sexual assault or an encounter with her in June 2014.Salmond said he’d had a consensual “sexual encounter” with Woman H “once and once only” at Bute House in August 2013.He said Woman H initiated the encounter.He said: “We both realised it wasn’t a good idea.”Salmond

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