This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Alex Salmond

Alex Salmond, the former SNP leader, was referred to as “a sex pest” and an “objectionable bully” by his own QC before being acquitted of all charges in his sex offences trial last week.

In a video — filmed on a train by a fellow passenger — Gordon Jackson, Scotland’s most senior QC, also names two of the women who alleged sexual assault by Salmond, despite strict rules that protect the anonymity of women in alleged sexual offence cases.

During a conversation on board an Edinburgh–Glasgow train during the first week of the trial, Jackson — who was in easy earshot of fellow passengers in the carriage — made a series of shocking