Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of a "shocking betrayal" over the deletion of all her WhatsApp messages during the pandemic.
Jamie Dawson KC, counsel to the UK Covid Inquiry, told the probe the former First Minister had retained no messages "whatsoever”.
At a hearing today, Dawson said: “Under the box ‘Nicola Sturgeon’, it says that messages were not retained, they were deleted in routine tidying up of inboxes or changes of phones, unable to retrieve messages.
“What that tends to suggest is at the time that request was made Nicola Sturgeon, the former first minister of Scotland, had retained no messages whatsoever in connection with her management of the pandemic.”
Lesley Fraser, the director general corporate of the Scottish government, agreed saying: “That’s what that indicates to me.”
Sturgeon, who led Scotland through the pandemic, has previously refused to say whether her messages were deleted.
Sturgeon has been under huge pressure after it was reported last year her WhatsApp messages during the pandemic had been deleted.
The messages are believed to be crucial in gaining a full understanding of why key pandemic decisions were made.
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