Given that Murrell was orchestrating his own senior staff to 'encourage' complaints & continued to try and suborn witnesses to make complaints when the police had opened their investigation,
except the messages Salmons claimed would 'prove' this did no such thing.
from the inquiry report:
, we wish to make one comment about the messages. This relates to
evidence provided to the Committee by Peter Murrell, Chief Executive of the SNP, on
8 December 2020.x At that meeting, Mr Murrell was asked to comment on messages
he had sent to an individual about police activity in relation to the former First Minister,
which had appeared in the public domain.
122. We are now aware that the messages quoted at the committee meeting formed
part of a longer exchange of messages. This exchange of messages was provided to
the Committee in response to its second notice under section 24 of the Scotland Act.
Having considered the messages referred to on 8 December 2020 in their full context,
the Committee is clearer that the messages support the explanation for the messages
set out by Mr Murrell in his written evidence.
and it was the same with claimants' messages, which Salmond had similarly taken snippets from to try and 'prove' collusion.
the inquiry said:
Some of the documents the Committee was seeking were correspondence between individuals.
119. On reading the documents received in response to the first notice, the Committee determined they were in the main personal messages showing individuals supporting each other and we agreed not to publish them.
120. On reading the documents received in response to the second notice, the
Committee was of the view that the messages were also either supportive in nature or
involved individuals commentating on external events. As such, we agreed not to
publish them.
these were not allowed in the court trial either, for the same reason
So don't know why these 'framed' and 'stitch up' claims are still doing the rounds