A witness has told Alex Salmond's trial at the High Court in Edinburgh that he wanted to ensure the 'welfare' of a colleague when he entered a room where Salmond and a woman were alone together.
The man worked as an advisor to Salmond when he was first minister.He was giving evidence at the trial of the former first minister who is facing sexual assault charges.The man said he was in Bute House when he went into a room where Salmond and a woman, identified in reports as Woman B, were alone together.He was asked by Shelagh McCall QC, acting for Salmond, if he saw “anything that concerned you“.He replied: “I don’t recall that.”Asked later by prosecutor Alex Prentice QC why he considered it necessary to go the room, he replied he wanted to
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