Mr Sheridan has been cross-examining ex-colleague, Ms Trolle A plot to “bring down” former Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) leader Tommy Sheridan “existed mostly in his mind”, a court has been told.
The claim was made by ex-colleague Katrine Trolle under questioning from Mr Sheridan who is conducting his own defence at the High Court in Glasgow.
The former MSP and his wife Gail, both 46, are on trial for perjury.
They deny lying during his successful defamation case against the News of the World newspaper in 2006.
Mr Sheridan won £200,000 in damages after the newspaper printed allegations about his private life, claiming he was an adulterer who had visited a swingers’ club.
After a police investigation, Mr and Mrs Sheridan were charged with perjury.
Ms Trolle previously told the trial she slept with Mr Sheridan on a number of occasions after meeting him on the SSP campaign trail in Glasgow in 2000.
The 36-year-old, who has travelled from Denmark to give evidence at the trial, said she had told police that Mr Sheridan had telephoned her and said party members were “out to get him”.
She added that she was unable to remember the phone conversation with him despite reporting it.
Mrs Sheridan is also accused of perjury Of the alleged claims of an SSP plot mentioned in the phone call, she told Mr Sheridan: “I think it was mostly in your mind.”
Mr Sheridan accused Ms Trolle of collaborating with other SSP members, including Allison Kane, who has already given evidence to the trial.
She told the court she heard Sheridan admit he had been to Cupid’s club in Manchester on two occasions during an emergency meeting of the party’s executive on 9 November 2004.
Ms Trolle said she was good friends with Ms Kane but would never “lie in court for her”.
Mr Sheridan said: “If Allison Kane and others wanted you to support their plot to bring me down, even including lying in court, would you support them?”
Ms Trolle replied: “No.”
Mr Sheridan also showed the court an article printed by the News of the World on 14 November 2004, with the headline: “Tommy is Finished”.
It quoted the party’s regional organiser for the north of Scotland, Duncan Rowan, as saying that people had been “lining up for him in the party for years”.
Ms Trolle said the article implied that Mr Rowan “thought people wanted to do you in”.
She added: “But Duncan also thought there was going to be an armed uprising in Scotland for Scottish independence. I wouldn’t put too much into this. He saw enemies in his own shadow.”
Ms Trolle also told the jury she was left “disappointed and probably also a bit angry” when Sheridan won his action against the News of the World.
It is alleged that Mr Sheridan made false statements as a witness in his defamation action against the News of the World on 21 July 2006.
He also denies another charge of attempting to persuade a witness to commit perjury shortly before the 23-day legal action got under way.
Mrs Sheridan denies making false statements on 31 July 2006, after being sworn in as a witness in the civil jury trial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
The trial is due to last between two and three months and is expected to become the longest perjury case in Scottish legal history.
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