Council refused to hire ex-MSP over perjury conviction

by Jamie

Glasgow City Council refused to give former MSP Tommy Sheridan a job because of the "unacceptable level of risk" his perjury conviction posed, a court has heard.

The former politician had applied to become a criminal justice social worker with Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership.

However he was told in a letter that future applications for jobs with the organisation would not progress due to him serving three years in jail for perjury.

In 2011 a jury at the High Court in Glasgow concluded the former MSP lied under oath during his successful defamation action against the News of the World newspaper.

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