A Labour MP has walked free from court after a sheriff described allegations that she had assaulted a Scottish independence campaigner as “a storm in a teacup”. The MP said she had tried to engage McLeish in conversation after the independence activist had verbally attacked her, calling her a “red Tory” and claiming Labour had wrecked the NHS. “I would never dream of hurting anyone or kicking anyone,” Rimmer had told the court. “I am not clear any party in this case, apart from the lady police officer, has told me what really happened on that day. Adele MacDonald, a fiscal depute, insisted the evidence had made clear it was not a malicious allegation but had actually happened.

Source: The Guardian November 02, 2016 17:20 UTC