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Thieves raid Tommy and Gail Sheridan's home as the couple attend a family christening

Posted on April 13, 2013 at 2:40 PM Comments comments (0)

IT was a nightmare end to a dream day when the couple arrived home to f...

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Tommy and Gail Sheridan finally get their belongings back five years after cops seized them during perjury probe

Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:10 PM Comments comments (0)


POLICE have finally returned belongings they seized from Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s home more than five years ago.

The couple yesterday collected huge Jiffy bags full of items from their lawyer’s Glasgow office.

The belongings included Gail’s priva...

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Law chief apologises to Gail and Tommy Sheridan after admitting blunders in probe into alleged police bigotry

Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:15 AM Comments comments (0)


LEGAL chiefs have apologised to Tommy and Gail Sheridan over delays in a probe into alleged police bigotry.

They admitted they failed to keep the couple updated on the inquiry, which related to devout Catholic Gail’s treatment by officers in 2008.

The Crown hav...

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Tommy Sheridan hires Donald Findlay for conviction appeal

Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:00 AM Comments comments (0)


POLITICIAN Tommy Sheridan has rehired top QC Donald Findlay for his appeal against conviction.

The two parted company ahead of Sheridan’s trial for perjury, prompting “Tommy drops his briefs” headlines.

But the former Scottish Socialist Party leader ...

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Bob Bird charged by Tommy Sheridan trial probe police

Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:40 AM Comments comments (0)

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The former editor at the News of the World Scotland has been charged in connection with the defamation action of former MSP Tommy Sheridan.

Bob Bird, 56, was charged with attempting to perv...

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Man charged with perjury over Tommy Sheridan trial

Posted on August 17, 2012 at 11:10 AM Comments comments (0)


A former news editor at the News of the World Scotland has been arrested and charged in connection with the perjury trial of former MSP Tommy Sheridan.

Douglas Wight, 39, has been charged with perjury, conspiracy to hack telephones and multiple charges of conspiracy to obtain personal data.

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Tommy Sheridan to keep tag as souvenir

Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:30 AM Comments comments (0)

BBC Website

Former MSP Tommy Sheridan has said he is keeping his electronic tag as a "wee souvenir" of his time as a prisoner.

Mr Sheridan had the tag removed on Thursday morning after serving the last six months of his sentence for perjury on home-detention curfew.

He was freed from Barlinnie prison in January, where he spent just over a year of his three-year sent...

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Tommy Sheridan reveals he can't wait for 'liberation' of having electronic tag removed

Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:50 PM Comments comments (0)

Jul 25 2012 By Anna Blyth

TOMMY Sheridan will have his electronic tag removed today – six months after his release from prison.

The former MSP will celebrate his freedom by jetting off on holiday with his wife Gail and their daughter Gabrielle.

Sheridan ha...

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Police apologised to Catholic Church over Gail Sheridan treatment

Posted on July 21, 2012 at 10:45 AM Comments comments (0)

Jul 21 2012 Exclusive by Keith McLeod

LOTHIAN and Borders Police apologised to the Catholic Church over their treatment of Gail Sheridan, the Daily Record can reveal.

Gail had her rosary beads taken away and was accused of using the same silent techniques as IRA terrorists during a six-hou...

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Tommy Sheridan is victim of construction industry's illegal spying operation

Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:35 AM Comments comments (0)

Jul 7 2012 Exclusive by Phil Chamberlain

A SECRET blacklisting operation run by the construction industry illegally kept files on Tommy Sheridan.

An 11-page file containing ­newspaper reports and smears about him was kept about the left-wing former MSP for more than 14 year...

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Tommy Sheridan trial witness 'had emails hacked by News of the World'

Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:50 PM Comments comments (0)

STV Website

A former escort girl who gave evidence at the 2006 Tommy Sheridan defamation trial has been told that her computer was hacked by the News of the World.

Former escort girl Fiona McGuire told the original Sheridan defamation trial in 2006 that she had taken part in an orgy with the disgraced former MSP.

Her claims of an affair w...

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Rebekah Brooks to be charged over phone hacking

Posted on May 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM Comments comments (0)

Herald scotland

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie Brooks are to be charged with perverting the course of justice during the phone-hacking scandal, they said today in a statement.

The couple made the announcement after it emerged last night they and four others would learn their fate today.

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Tommy Sheridan perjury conviction 'unsafe', claims MP Tom Watson

Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:20 PM Comments comments (0)

BBC Website

Former MSP Tommy Sheridan was wrongly convicted of committing perjury during his defamation action against the News of the World, a Labour MP has claimed.

Tom Watson, a member of the committee probing phone-hacking, said the jury had not been "in full possession of the facts" and the judgment was "unsound".

Mr Sheridan was awarded £200,000 in damag...

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Appeal over Tommy Sheridan damages victory remains frozen

Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:15 PM Comments comments (0)

Tommy Sheridan has claimed victory in the latest round of his seven-year legal battle with the News of the World over articles about his private life.

The now defunct newspaper's publisher is appealing the decision to award Mr Sheridan £200,000 in damages in 2006.

The case has been on hold pending police investigations.

News Group had asked for the appeal to...

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Tommy Sheridan vows to clear name after release from jail

Posted on January 30, 2012 at 6:25 PM Comments comments (0)

Tommy Sheridan has vowed to clear his name after being released from prison following his conviction for perjury.

Speaking outside his Glasgow home, he said: "This fight is far from over and this story has not yet finished."

The 47-year-old was found guilty of lying during his successful defamation case against the News of the World newspaper in 2006.

He was jail...

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Former MSP loses Sheridan defamation claim

Posted on December 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM Comments comments (0)

Frances Curran claimed a Daily Record article about Tommy Sheridan's civil legal victory defamed her.

A former MSP has lost a legal bid for compensation from a newspaper she claimed defamed her in the wake of Tommy Sheridan's court victor...

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Jailed firebrand Tommy Sheridan demands £200k swinger lawsuit payout from Rupert Murdoch

Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:10 PM Comments comments (0)

TOMMY Sheridan is to demand the £200,000 damages he's still owed from the News of the World.

It's five years since the politician successfully sued the paper over claims he visited a swingers' club.

The publication, which has since folded, said it would appeal the sum but has never officially begun proceedings.

A source close to Sheridan said yesterday: "Tommy...

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