SNP under fire over handling of sex scandal complaints 

To Scotland, where the Nats are facing accusations of not dealing with sex offender complaints properly. Cameron Downing, former SNP equalities officer, was last month jailed for six years after being convicted of sexually assaulting six young adults and physically assaulting two women. Between 2016 and 2021, the ex-equalities officer was found to have attacked seven people and has been convicted of 10 charges – including sexual assault and domestic abuse. He resigned from the equalities post after his tweets from 2022 about how he wanted to ‘beat the f*** out of some terfs and transphobes’ emerged – but only had his SNP membership formally removed in January 2023.

And it has now been alleged that one of Downing’s victims raised concerns with the party about his behaviour in 2022 – but no action was taken. The woman, who alleges she was attacked by the ex-equalities officer, told the Sunday Mail she emailed Karen Adam, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, to make her complaint, reportedly writing:

I am contacting you in reference to an equalities officer of the London branch.