Sheridan’s wife and father-in-law charged with perjury

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The wife and father-in-law of the former Solidarity MSP Tommy Sheridan, are the latest additions to the list of people charged with perjury in relation to Mr Sheridan’s defamation case.

The Scottish poltician, who successfully sued the 'News of The World' over a story which reported that the he had engaged in drink and drug fuelled orgies, was charged last December with perjuring himself in the initial court case.

Now his wife, Gail Sheridan, and father-in-law, Gus Healy, have also been implicated.

Mrs Sheridan had always denied that her husband had been unfaithful or had attended swingers clubs. The alibis that her and her father gave Mr Sheridan were extremely important in the case against the newspaper.

Mrs Sheridan and her father were taken to Gayfield Square police station in Edinburgh last week, questioned extensively and subsequently charged.

Mrs Sheridan was questioned in court last year by her husband after he sacked his legal team.

Asked by Mr Sheridan if she would have testified had she believed the allegations, she told the court: “There is no way I would have been here. In fact, neither would you, because you would be in the Clyde with a piece of concrete tied round you. It would be me in court getting done for murder.”

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