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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Lucinda Cameron

Jury to consider case of man accused of threatening to assassinate Nicola Sturgeon

A JURY has retired to consider its verdict against a man accused of making a post on social media threatening the assassination of Scotland’s First Minister.

William Curtis, 70, is on trial accused of sending threatening messages to Nicola Sturgeon and sending or causing a threatening message to be sent to former SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson.

Curtis and another man, Philip Mitchell, 60, are also accused of assaulting and abducting a sheriff in a car park in Banff, Aberdeenshire, in June 2021.

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