Alex Salmond tells court that he 'did not' attempt to rape woman after event at Bute House

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Alex Salmond has told the High Court in Edinburgh that he 'did not' attempt to rape a woman after an event at Bute House. The former first minster was giving evidence in his own defence at his trial where he is accused of 13 offences against nine women.While in the witness stand, Salmond was taken through various duties, meetings and events entered in the first minister’s diary for May 2014 by his lawyer Gordon Jackson QC.Woman H had given details of an alleged sexual assault in Bute House in that month by Salmond.Salmond said he could see no event at Bute House that Woman H could have been present at with him.Salmond told the court that Woman H wasn’t present at a June 2014 event after which he is accused of attempting to rape her.He