00:00 My name is Amr Amwar, I'm the lead solicitor for the Scottish COVID-Bari.
00:03 Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister became Scotland's master of spin,
00:07 but today she will be facing the greatest trial she has ever faced to date.
00:11 There will be no hiding place, no toleration of spin, no acceptance of sorrow-filled apologies.
00:17 The Scottish COVID-Bari deserve and expect the truth.
00:21 In comparison to Let the Bodies Pile Up High, Boris Johnson,
00:25 Nicola Sturgeon projected a daily image of sincerity
00:28 in wanting to do right by the people of Scotland during the pandemic.
00:32 But that carefully crafted image has been left shattered by the hands of Ms Sturgeon herself.
00:37 Those who lost loved ones were convinced that they would no longer be invisible in their misery,
00:42 and Ms Sturgeon would do everything possible to illuminate the truth.
00:47 That was the very least she owed to those who lost their lives to COVID.
00:50 But today Nicola Sturgeon stands accused of a betrayal of the many promises that she made,
00:56 including that nothing would be off limits in the public inquiries.
01:01 Her industrial deletion of WhatsApps, along with those in her inner circle,
01:05 begs the question why, when she knew a public inquiry was on its way?
01:10 Why from January 2020 to the 1st of September 2020 are there zero WhatsApps,
01:16 and rather conveniently none for inner circle 2?
01:18 Last week her former Chief of Staff Liz Lloyd provided WhatsApp messages
01:23 that provided much laughter and many front pages in Ms Sturgeon's description of Mr Johnson as a clown.
01:29 The COVID bereaved were not so easily fooled by such spin.
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