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But he agreed with solicitor Norman Fraser, for Ogilvie, that it had simply been a telephone conversation – he had not gone to the police station and had neither made nor signed a formal statement.

He said he had memory problems and could not recall exactly what he had told the officer.

Submitting no case to answer, Mr Fraser said that “anti-Irish, anti-Catholic” slogans were “alien” to Ogilvie.

He said: “They are not expressions he has used.”

Justice of the Peace Dr Vicki Nash upheld the submission.

She said the police statement was insufficiently corroborated and found Ogilvie not guilty.

Siol nan Gaidheal was formed in 1978. It does not classify itself as a political party and claims the “fostering of Scottish ethnicity as the bedrock of Scottish nationality should in turn form the basis for Scottish citizenship”. Members were officially banned from the SNP in 1982 by then party leader Gordon Wilson, who described it as “proto-fascist”.

However, Mr Ogilvie appears to have been involved in the SNP until much later. He was active in its Bannockburn branch in 2005 and was pictured with Alex Salmond, then First Minister, and local SNP election candidates in 2009.

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Flare up Bruce Ogilvie (left) exchanges words with flute band members at the Battle of Bannockburn commemoration event in June, 2017

Angry words Bruce Ogilvie said to have been angry when flute band attended Battle of Bannockburn rally