Nicola Sturgeon has been warned by covid bereaved families’ lawyers they “know for a fact” she sent WhatsApps during the pandemic. The former first minister is at the centre of a furious row after claiming to have no “relevant” communications to release to a public inquiry she is due to give evidence to within weeks.
Solicitor Aamer Anwar has said deleting material could be a criminal offence and has asked the Information Commissioner to launch an investigation. He has spoken out as he prepares to go to London with campaigners who lost loved ones for the opening of the UK covid inquiry on Tuesday.
Sturgeon is due to give evidence along with former deputy first minister John Swinney, shamed former chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood and ex-health minister Jeane Freeman. But ministers and officials both at Westminster and Holyrood have not handed over personal online messages.
