I suspect I should say as little as possible in the next few days. With apologies to The National, I have copied their story out from behind their firewall.
BEGINS
A FORMER diplomat has instructed his lawyers to begin preparations for an appeal to the Supreme Court after learning he had lost a contempt of court case over his reports from the trial of Alex Salmond in March last year.
Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, attended two days of the trial – at which Salmond was found innocent – and sat in the public gallery, later writing about it for his blog.
However, in January he faced a virtual contempt of court hearing before Lady Dorrian, the Lord Justice Clerk, at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh.
It is now understood that a session for judgement to be delivered will be held at the High Court before Lady Dorrian, Lord Turnbull and Lord Menzies on Thursday – exactly eight weeks after the initial 90-minute hearing.
Sources close to Murray, 62, indicated that he was advised by court staff and his legal team that if he won the case, the judgement would simply be published.
However, if he lost, and particularly if a custodial sentence was probable, there would be a new hearing of the court – which has now been called.
Contempt of court carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and an unlimited fine.
Last month, Clive Thomson, a 52-year-old from Rosyth, was jailed for six months for contempt in the same case.
Murray is expected to stand as a candidate for Action for Independence (AFI) on the Lothians list in May’s Holyrood election.
READ MORE: Craig Murray bids to lead Action For Independence’s list in the Lothians
However, if sentenced to a year or more in jail, he will be disqualified from standing.
Murray was accused of contempt over publications likely to influence the jury and with jigsaw identification of complainants.
His defence argued that if the Crown believed these were likely to influence the jury, then action should have been taken before the trial and not after.
On jigsaw identification, his counsel, John Scott QC, argued that Murray had known the identity of all the complainants for months and had taken care not to give them away.
He argued: “[Murray] was aware of the names of the complainers, even when there was no court order regarding them. But he said it would not be responsible journalism to have named them.
“The Crown appears to say there must be a deliberate campaign to drop enough hints so that the complainers can be identified.
“There is a great deal of evidence showing he was not someone who was fixated on naming the complainers and dropping hints to identify.
“The fact alone is that he knew about the names and if he wanted to name them, he could have done so.”
In the two months between the hearing and judgement, he has said on social media that the delay was taking a toll on his family and on his mental health.
One member of the Murray family told The National: “Objective evidence shows that mainstream media published far more jigsaw identification pieces than Craig and were not prosecuted.”
Asked how Murray felt about the possibility of being jailed, they said: “Well, obviously not happy.
“Nadira and he have a one-month-old son and he’s not in good health nor getting any younger.
“But never underestimate his commitment and principle – he is a lot tougher than he looks.”
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If there is anything that points to Sturgeon and her collaborator’s guilt it is surely these series of actions against journalists and bloggers who have the temerity to question the official line, and report on the publicly available evidence. If they had nothing to hide, there would be no need to act so punitively and censoriously against only the people who seek the truth and not the myriad of others who have revealed more than these dissidents.
So I take it this kind of desperate action to put a lid on the slow emergence of the facts is a telltale giveaway. So much for transparency, accountability and separation of powers. You know – the basic building blocks of democracy. The very things they are destroying without the slightest impunity. Utterly shameful and an alarming portent for the future under this despotic rule.
I’ll be honest with you, Craig. I’ve always had some serious issues with your attitudes. Not with regard to Scottish independence, which I support, but with your other, social and political leftist views. But let me say this — what’s happening to you now is a disgrace and, irredeemable old right-winger though I am, I back you entirely. I think you’re getting hosed and there’s a donation on its way. I’m sorry I’m not in a position to do anything else at the moment, but I hope it means something.
Absolutely disgusting, it beggars belief how they can get away with this.
We hear a lot about protecting women from the wishes of more powerful men, but what of protecting them from the wishes of more powerful women? One of the “complainers” wrote of “feeling pressured rather than supported”.
Power is the issue, not gender.
Focussing the public debate upon gender just serves to divide the public, making us all more vulnerable to power.
Focussing upon gender potentially divides us as thoroughly as possible; half versus half, everywhere, all ages, all ethnicities. It is the ultimate divide and conquer.
I have cancelled my SNP membership and increased my subscription as I assume if the verdict goes against you, the security of predictable income will be of more use to your family than a one-off fighting fund donation.
Taking from Peter to pay Craig – despite the circumstance, an exquisite pleasure.
Craig, I think you did breach the order. I think you knew what you were doing. You tried to ‘sail close to the wind’ and now they are out to get you.
I don’t think you should deny it. It demeans you and insults the court which isn’t going to help.
Instead, you should argue for that it was very much in the public interest to know details if not the names of the complainers.
Jigsaw identification as a concept is so open to abuse that it represents, especially as practiced by a corrupt CO, an unacceptable restriction on a free press.
You have provided a vital national service. Own it. Stop pretending it was inadvertent and state clearly and unequivocally that the public had a right to know the nature and positions of the complainers.
I will contribute to your appeal if you do. I won’t if you continue to argue a point that is clearly hopeless. Good luck anyway. The world needs people like you.
– “I think you did breach the order…”
There was no order, the prosecutor never submitted the matter to the court.
There was only an advisement from the prosecutor. The prosecutor cannot make orders, it is intentionally and by design not a neutral body.
He’s retweeted since the order. It’s not Craig’s behaviour that is the problem. If the public knew the full details they would see this conspiracy for what it was. That’s why they are desperate to avoid that. I have no doubt that the crown office’s latest move against the spectator is related to the upcoming judgement.
I am hopefully helpfully suggesting that there is a lot of support out there but he should quit an argument that is clearly bullshit.
He will be on much firmer ground.
Retweets can’t be contempt; Salmond’s trial was already over so there was nothing to prejudice.
Scot said ‘I don’t think you should deny it. It demeans you and insults the court which isn’t going to help.’
Firstly there was no order, otherwise Craig would have replied and conformed with their wishes, secondly should a mere insult bring the wrath of the courts to bear when they have thousands of real cases in their inbox?
There was no order as the offending article was published BEFORE THE TRIAL! FFS keep up you demented twat!
I came very late to this party. I always thought wee Kranky was a manipulative wrong ‘un, and would build a praetorian guard to shield her from scrutiny.
I was not surprised that she wanted AS neutralised and kept from coming back onto the stage. I was surprised that nobody discouraged her friends or family, or her indeed, from firing up a runaway train of lies, perjury and corruption.
When I started reading CM & Wings a few months ago, I didnt know any of the cast of this wretched play, other than the actual politicians in the public eye.
I dont know any of the accusers, and I wasnt able to identify them from anything CM wrote.
I suspect this ‘conviction’ has been decided on narrow, abstract, technical grounds, of exactly the type the Law obsesses over, because they refuse to deal in objective justice.
To anyone in the real world, the mainstream media acted to expose the identities, and CM and AS did the opposite.
Justice not seen to be done.
The Law falls if those subjected to it, do not believe in it anymore.
Hi Craig
I have made a donation of £100, wish it could be more.
We are now in a police state.
I am so angry and dismayed that you have been subjected to this.
Craig, thank you for your honesty, your courage and your integrity in bringing the truth to the people of Scotland (and in certain cases the wider world). You have opened Scotland’s eyes to the lies and corruption of the Scottish State and it’s institutions. I have been an independence supporter most of my adult life and was for 36 years a supporter and then member of the SNP. I cut up my membership card, strangely, the final straw was when Sturgeon (I no longer have the respect to give her her full name) meekly followed the UK “herd immunity” Covid 19 strategy putting the people of Scotland at risk. That was the moment I realised that the SNP was a party of the union, a party of devolution and no further. Your efforts have confirmed this and that is why the SNP/government and Sturgeon are working hand in hand with, as Jeggit wrote ” The unholy trinity of the CROWN, the British Civil Service and the British media in Scotland, to crush those “Independence, and only independence supporters” who dare challenge her leadership. I can no longer support the Scotland that has been created by this regime, however I will fight on to create the Scotland I envisaged in 2014 when we did have a leader for Independence. My thoughts are with you and your family and you have my respect and support. Saor Alba
I am sorry to hear about this. It is a disgrace and I agree with Athansius i.e. I don’t agree with all of your views but I bloody well agree with your right to speak out and am concerned about what sort of f****g f****t state we are slipping into.
Publish the FULL story and name the names. What have you got to lose now? If you’re going down, at least go down having done ‘the right thing’. Don’t get on your knees and plead for mercy from the court and whining about how sorry you are and all that. Take control of the situation. It’s better for your physical and mental health too.
Mist001, Craig has consistently made it clear that his belief is that the names should not be published. He’s right in my opinion. I still don’t know the names and I’ve probably read everything he’s written. What was important was, not who these people were exactly, but their connectedness and their closeness to the Murrells. That’s the important information that the public needs – that’s what Craig has supplied, and that is why he’s being politically silenced.
Exactly the point, Martin. And that is why this deplorable, corrupt administration is pulling out all the stops to make sure the public will not know the relationship of those people to Sturgeon and each other, not to mention other officials in various insititutions. Using the perfectly understandable demand of anonymity in such cases to hide the pertinent facts of the relationships between many involved in the case and its prosecution is the desperate cloak behind which they are hiding the truth, and the reason they will go to the extraordinary lengths of prosecution and censoring of anybody who might enlighten us, without naming any names (quite rightly).
Consider this: every political journalist and every MSP, and thousands of others, know who the women are. Yet they cannot discuss, publish or refer to them in any way, the most important of which is not their personal identity. How very convenient.
I seem to remember Ryan Giggs’ name being leaked overseas when there was a gagging order imposed by a court.
Any chance of a US website leaking all the names and their positions, since they are not subject to Scottish Law??
I don’t really want to know the names of complainants in such cases.
I would quite like to know names of perjurors who made up stories which were PROVED to be FAKE and see them receive the treatment of Aitkens shield and sword, they would have to be published if and when they are found guilty and sentenced. I can wait until then or even when they feature in a film equivalent of All The Presidents Men (and plenty of Women) in this TartanGate conspiracy.
Mr Murray
You are a credible and well regarded journalist. When you read some of the recent mainstream print media writing articles about a newsreader, Holmes, having a sore tooth (Daily Mail) or The Guardian publishing some nonsense about having discovered the Security Service apparently funding Imperial College research about drones; the need for good quality journalism is self evident and should be supported.
A cynic could be forgiven for thinking that confidence in the Scottish judiciary was already undermined by their refusal to consider all available evidence in the Al-Megrahi appeal ( specifically the PCB ). We have seen, I think, a Chancery judge, deny the sovereign state of Venezuela its claim to its own gold. It would therefore be no surprise to me or no doubt many others if the court found you guilty. Appeal if it goes against you and good luck.
I am ashamed & angry that parts of the SNP & Scottish Gov’t I VOTED FOR, N.S. and a thoroughly corrupt Crown Office are behind this blatently political prosecution. This is the final straw for me, I will be cancelling my membership of the SNP today. I hope you can successfully appeal this Craig, the fact that the Daily Record’s jigsaw identification of the women has been ignored by the Crown Office proves the purely political nature of your prosecution.
Craig, hopefully you will not to spend time inside but if you do get banged up as a political prisoner then keep a diary. I would buy a copy.
Also read Simon Mann’s Cry Havoc, which is in part an expose of his involvement in various coups and his complaint about having been let down by his own side, but is also a good account of how he maintained physical and psychological health in prison.
Agreed, your prison diary would be a classic, I’d buy it for myself and friends. Sorry and disgusted to hear this news Craig, I hope we can continue to support your family if the appeal isn’t successful, here’s hoping it is. And that all this publicity sends your blog numbers through the roof.
You could certainly put it along side Jonathan Aitken’s memoirs – a classic of the genre.
And David Irving’s “Banged Up” – an excellent and eye-opening book.
It reveals that, far from having rejected fascism and taken up liberal beliefs, Austria has merely switched polarity.
In the 1930s the Nazis were good and the Jews were bad. Today the Jews are good and the Nazis are bad. But you can still go to prison for speaking.
Craig, I agree with some others, take the hit from the government, but bit them with some jabs and an uppercut, name the complainants, leak the text messages, if you are going down, take them down with you, I wish you all the best in whatever you do
David Davis said he might use Parliamentary Privilege again !
He is tainted as far as the Sturgeon supporters are concerned, Jim Jones would have learnt a trick or two from or Nikliar
What outrageous and distressing news! Obviously the court system in Scotland has gone to the dogs just as much as its cousins in the UK and here in the US! All seem now to be fully preoccupied with the pettiest of vindictive political interests to the exclusion of the determination of justice. And the thing is only made all the more putrid by the mock concern for the safety of the chimerical women whose names might, in some alternative world, have been revealed to the public by through a proper reassembly of all of the various “jigsaw” pieces contained, but also well dispersed, in your many different writings in divers places over several months, if, that is, anyone had had such a malicious intention to properly assemble all such significations and then interpret them only through some consequential “hermeneutics of suspicion.”
And, in this case, almost all of these jigsaw “clues” were only left at the crime scene by the accused well after the moment at which they might have done any possible injury to the proceedings! Clearly the level of intentional malevolence involved is far greater than I would ever have expected, although, I suppose, the thoroughly perverse machinations/collaborations of both prosecution and judge in the Assange extradition hearings ought to have apprised me that, in these sorry days of an internationally hegemonic “wokest” mythology, no signal perversion of justice could be too large but to find expression somewhere in the [primarily Anglophone] world.
In any case, I am very sorry to hear that you, and, indeed, your entire family, are to be put through still more gratuitous stress merely to placate the vindictive power trips of those who no doubt delude themselves into believing they are doing something to “keep out all possible prejudice” even as they arrogate to themselves the privilege of imposing their own, quite easy to ascertain, — jigsaw evidence hardly needed! — prejudices upon others, and entirely at the expense of those others. As far too often in this world today, a vaunted “will to protect” is, upon reflection, but masquerade for an ulterior “will to demean and punish.”
What is the next step here? I assume you can appeal the wretched verdict before they can haul you off to gaol, but I certainly do not know that to be the case as I am unfamiliar with the peculiarities of Scottish law. Nonetheless, I would at least caution you not to allow yourself to assume that you are about to face the worst possible consequences of the reprehensible verdict. It may well turn out, just to mention an obvious prospect, that any incarceration time will be waived, probably in favor of some probational requirements, and some pecuniary theft of some type and amount, be imposed instead. If so, you may well remain “at large” despite the many serious dangers you undoubtedly present to the security of goodly state-censorship complicit citizens everywhere, — especially those frail, 19th Century females needing continual chaperoning which your persecutors seem still clearly to be subconsciously imagining, — in their jaundiced and biased conceptualization of justice.
So please try to remain of good cheer, or at least the best cheer you can under such miserable circumstances. Please remember that bad and ominous as this latest turn of events is there are yet many hundreds of us around the globe who have followed your case and support you implicitly! And, of course, try also to remember that, as the wise old Mandarin scholars once informed the emperor, “This too shall pass.”
Best regards from a finally sunny and warm, fully spring-like Pittsburgh,
And from,
Yours most sincerely,
Bill Fusfield
P.S.: I trust you have already buried your diabolical “jigsaw” of free speech somewhere in the deep woods of the far north, that you might exhume it for further services when and if the oppressive delinquencies of this time subside. Whatever you do, please don’t allow such a noble tool to fall into the hands of your enemies!
Excellent post. Hate to nitpick. But the point of the threat of being found guilty is NOT the vindictive imprisonment, as it really isn’t about the fake accusations or that there was a desire to jigsaw identify (equally fake charge and n my opinion).
This is not about the alphabet women.
This is about how and who coordinated them and why?
At this stage all WE can do is to plan to overwhelm the legal costs war chest in response to making CM a political prisoner, convict, who they are attempting to stop from politicking for Scotland’s much belated Independence from the English Yoke.
As the Americans did 250 years ago. Supposedly.
I’m feeling pretty numb and not sure what to say, except how sorry I am it seems to have turned out badly. Solidarity. It the worst comes to the worst you will find you are not without friends and your friends will never desert you. Best.
RT have put up a report..
Former Scottish ambassador Craig Murray facing prison over reporting of defence case in Alex Salmond trial
22 Mar, 2021 13:21
https://www.rt.com/uk/518795-craig-murray-prison-salmond-trial/
It’s surprising that RT reports this, but the Union of Journalists, or Amnesty International, are silent.
Mr. Murray defended the right of Pussy Riot and Navalny to speak freely, why now does Pussy Riot not return the courtesy and sing a song in support of Mr. Murray?
Why doesn’t Navalny’s organization say a few words? What stops the Navalny’s Fund from transferring at least a small amount in support?
Where are all these defenders of freedoms from government persecution?
Where are all these honest independent bloggers, vloggers, newspapers and channels?
Tatiana
I grew up believing liberal media and politicians were lions of truth, freedom and justice. Imagine how shocked and disoriented I was when I discovered (in my late 20s) that they are actually slippery, totally unscrupulous frauds in permanent service to big money and war-making interests.
They hate people like Craig Murray because he embodies the values they claim to cherish but actually despise.
There really are two kinds of people. Those who believe in truth as an ultimate value, and those who don’t.
Those who don’t seem to be in a large majority, and they talk glibly about truth and honesty and “human rights”.
But all they are really interested in is money and power.
Actually, I can’t understand why this question is humbly discussed here, on a private blog???
If I were in Mr. Murray’s place, I’d put a question directly in my Twitter. A series of separate posts, like this:
@Navalny what’s your opinion on my ‘jigsaw identification’ case?
@PussyRiot what’s your opinion on my ‘jigsaw identification’ case?
@AmnestyInternational what’s your opinion on my ‘jigsaw identification’ case?
It would be very easy to see, then, who is answering and who is ignoring.
Like open letter, you see? Very easy.
Eliot Higgins is British, and he says he is good in investigation, especially in investigating open sources.
@ElliotHiggins and @Bellingcat what’s your opinion on Mr. Murray’s ‘jigsaw identification’ case? Freedom of speech in your country is attacked by your own state!
I really did think that they might have seen sense and not have martyred you. Instead, they are sticking to the letter of the law. I do think that women require to be protected by anonymity in cases involving alleged sexual offences. However, that cloak of anonymity was never meant to be used to snipe at others. I think if you are going to do that, you really need to sacrifice the cloak of anonymity. I am appalled by this judgement and I feel for you and your family, Mr Murray. Maybe, just maybe, they will not impose a custodial sentence. If it is a monetary one, we, your readers will contribute as we are able.
I well recall how you said that you would not identify the women, but the jigsaw nature of this whole thing makes it very difficult not to give away hints, even when you don’t mean to. Others have done as much and more, yet they are allowed to get away with it. I think that you, Mark Hirst and Mr Thomson are being hung out to dry. Unlike most other commentators on this issue, I have this uneasy feeling that at least some of the women were also hung out to dry, in a different way.
I wish you and your family all the best in these worrying times.
– “I have this uneasy feeling that at least some of the women were also hung out to dry, in a different way.”
I agree, as I wrote above:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/03/the-world-darkens-a-little-more-i-may-have-to-spend-some-time-as-a-political-prisoner/comment-page-3/#comment-983377
yes they are Clark, but they are also perjurers in the eye of the law, AS has been tried and found not guilty. So where does this leave those who have perjured themselves? Where does it leave the law, knowing that they have committed perjury.
will perjury be scrapped? Can you now get away with a factually wrong account after swearing an oath in court, being found to be wrong by a jury, and then demand anonymity?
All of these acts supposedly to protect people seem to be designed for power to silence the opposition. Look at this Hate Crimes bill. It is now easy for the ruling party to imprison anyone they want to, and to scare off others that might think about standing up.
“As good be hanged for an old sheep as a young lamb” ?
Bad luck Craig, the state that is rapidly becoming fascist is gunning for you. However, you have widespread support as you can see, and I will also support you morally and financially to further your fight against this fascist state.
Meanwhile the headlines talk of “The Road to Freedom” and the pubs opening next month.
Really depressing to read this and my heart goes out to you and your family. I wish you the best of success with any appeal.
I imagine you’re feeling panicked, distressed and scared, not only of the sentence but of leaving your family to fend for themselves in a seemingly hostile and unjust society. I’m very sorry for what has transpired, and wish there was some way to alleviate some of your pain and suffering.
If it’s any consolation, your situation is not viewed as an isolated event or unique to Scotland. It has become glaringly and alarmingly clear that government bureaucracies are enforcement tools of wealthy elites and their political agents. The corruption of the government lawyers is clearly manifest in numerous contemporary governments, including Australia, Canada, the US, New Zealand, et al. The mishandling of Covid-19 funds and vaccine distribution is just the latest evidence of how Western governments now orient their priorities and mandates to benefit the private sector and the politicians who serve them. The lack of governmental audits and ethics investigations (which couldn’t stop intervening in Corbyn’s campaign) are now mute and nowhere to be seen. The evidence of government abuse to benefit the political wings of the oligarchic class is too copious to be ignored.
You have spread awareness and manifested the reality of this corruption through your writing, and brought it home to most people who thought that conditions had not deteriorated as badly as they have. You have made it clear that sitting around and waiting for ‘the System’ to correct itself is a delusion that will not transpire. You have made it clear that any action, no matter how seemingly inconsequential or negligible, is preferable to sitting and hoping that ‘someone’ will do ‘something’ to change the decline of governmental ethics and accountability in the West.
There are plenty of legal ways of expressing dissent and calling for greater government oversight and control. I will be taking such action today, and maintaining my efforts as far as they can go. It might be through writing letters, through organizing a sidewalk protest, through joining an NGO or supporting petitions for changes to government policies. It doesn’t matter what form it takes, it just has to be a start that gets me off the couch and disengages the mute button from my voice.
Thank you. Be strong. Know that you have reached and influenced many, many others.
Wishing you and your family well.
I can only echo what is being said on here. What is happening to you is a disgrace in any decent society. Unfortunately we do not live in a decent society at the moment. Sturgeon and her corruption have destroyed that for the time being but rest assured, like everything in life, it will be transitory and there will be a day of reckoning and you will be vindicated. I would not like to be in any of Sturgeons many expensive shoes when that day comes.
I hope you will start a fund raiser for the appeal. There are many of us who will support you until you achieve justice.
Great disappointment in the legal system who must be doing cartwheels to avoid the truth.
If the next hearing goes badly let me know what type of cake you like.
The truth will out and they will be left with at best red faces.
I expect the women will end up in jail.
I am sorry to hear the likely outcome of your case. It is a wretched day for freedom of speech and a triumph for the right wing harpies out to defeat the independence movement just so they cling onto a place on the gravy train. They should be ashamed of perjuring themselves in court under a cloak of anonymity, the same cloak that put you in jeopardy. Jigsaw identity my arse.
Craig I’m going to send you £200 now, wish it could be more
T
You should have it now.
My god Craig, do we really live in this world now?
I can’t work out whether I’m angry or heartbroken – both I guess
Sturgeon squirms out of it.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/?cat=filter&page=1
“Although I accept the First Minister’s statement that her motivation for agreeing to the meeting was personal and political … it could not in my opinion be characterised as a party meeting. … In fairness the First Minister did not seek to make any case to ME that this was a party meeting.” emphasis added
Ah! But she DID tell the Parliament that the meeting was a party meeting. WTF is this whitewash?
its a whiter than white whitewash, how can a judiciary that is part of the Government be regarded as unbiased and independent? they cannot imho.
Hopefully eg Kevin Goztola could do a daily report to us if your appeal is to be heard.