Wife-beater former MSP claims in new book he is victim of vendetta

BILL Walker, the wifebeating former SNP MSP for Dunfermline, has been accused of being “in excessive denial” after writing a book saying he is the victim of a “vendetta”.

Mr Walker quit Holyrood in 2013 after he was found guilty of 23 counts of assault involving three former wives and a stepdaughter over 30 years and given a 12-month jail term. Sentencing him, at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, Sheriff Katherine Mackie noted his “complete absence of any remorse”.

Mr Walker has now selfpublished the first half of a two-part electronic autobiography, Setting the Record Straight.

Mr Walker, 75, claims SNP HQ first heard of a domestic abuse complaint against him in 2008, via a member of staff in Nicola Sturgeon’s constituency office, but did not raise it with him until six months

Bill Walker was found guilty of attacks on women.

after he was elected in 2011. He says a former in-law launched a “vendetta” against him and “certain individuals in the SNP hierarchy” knew it. He says the details will be revealed in volume two.

A Labour spokesman said: “Bill Walker is a bully and a misogynist. He has

been in excessive denial about what he did. If he wants to set the record straight he should start by apologising to his victims.”

An SNP spokesman said: “Bill Walker was expelled from the SNP when information he had withheld from the party came to light.” TWO men have appeared in court charged with murdering two fathers in separate incidents in Fife.

Daniel O’Farrell, 21, was found dead at a house in Glenrothes, on Saturday, just 10 days after his third child was born.

And Colin Oliphant, 38, died after being found severely injured at a property in Keltyhill Avenue, Kelty, last Wednesday in an unrelated incident.

Yesterday their alleged killers appeared in court to face charges relating to the separate deaths.

Greig Love, 20, of Glenrothes, appeared in private at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court facing a single charge of murder over the death of Daniel O’Farrell.

He made no plea and the case against him was continued.

Love was remanded in