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| Scots politician Tommy Sheridan |
A "Psychic Agony Aunt" told Tommy Sheridan he was under "24/7" surveillance by the News of the World, a court heard yesterday.
Yasemin Urquhart, who wrote for the newspaper under the pseudonym "Ruth the Truth", sent a series of emails to the politician, telling him the observation was "ordered by Rupert Murdoch" and advised him to "keep your head down".
The emails were shown to the Scottish News of the World editor Bob Bird during his fourth day on the witness stand at Sheridan's perjury trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Sheridan and his wife Gail are accused of lying during the successful action against the paper over allegations made about his private life. They both deny the charges.
The action followed the newspaper's claims that he was an adulterer who visited swingers' clubs.
Sheridan, a former contestant on Big Brother, won £200,000 in damages after the newspaper printed the allegations.
Following the civil jury trial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, a police investigation was launched and the former MSP and his wife, both 46, were charged with perjury.
