Nicola Sturgeon is facing a police investigation over her deleted pandemic WhatsApp messages, the Sunday Mail can reveal.Bereaved families have instructed lawyers to prepare a criminal complaint detailing the “wilful” destruction of messages “on an industrial scale” by the former first minister and others.The Scottish Government was repeatedly warned that deleting material relevant to an ongoing public inquiry into the Covid-19 response would be against the law and alleged offenders could face jail.Today, we can also reveal: ● Bombshell TV footage of Sturgeon reading out WhatsApp messages from her phone five months after announcing a Scottish Covid inquiry. ● Her new claims messages were not deleted has been rubbished by Covid inquiry legal teams, who accused her of “playing games”.● Why First Minister Humza Yousaf is facing serious questions over dismissing the same exclusive Sunday Mail story which revealed he told the inquiry his messages had also NOT been retained.As public fury mounts, Sturgeon was accused of being no better than ex-Tory PM Boris Johnson and the Scottish Government of treating families whose loved ones died with “total contempt”.Aamer Anwar, lead solicitor of the Scottish Covid Bereaved group, was astonished by the developments.He said: “It is a matter of public record that Nicola Sturgeon has wilfully deleted her messages, the same applies to former deputy first minister John Swinney and the National Clinical Director Jason Leitch.“The deletion of WhatsApps can only be seen as a cynical, premeditated decision and of course Ms Sturgeon and others must answer as to their motivation for deleting messages.“Ms Sturgeon should be treated no differently to Boris Johnson, who failed to provide
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