Alex Salmond in court over 'attempted rape' at Bute House as details of alleged sex attacks against 10 women revealed

ALEX Salmond has appeared in court to face 14 sexual and indecent assault charges from his time as First Minister including claims he tried or intended to rape two women.

The former SNP leader, 64, pleaded not guilty to all of the accusations against him – which are alleged to have taken place between 2008 and 2014 – when he appeared in the dock for a preliminary hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh this morning.

Prosecutors claim Mr Salmond attempted to rape a woman at Bute House, his official residence as First Minister in Edinburgh, in June 2014.

Mr Salmond, of Strichen, Aberdeenshire, is alleged to have tried to force himself on the woman by pushing her on a bed, pinning her down by her shoulder and kneeling over before lying naked on top of her.

The charge states he also repeatedly blocked her path, touched her breasts and body and removed both his and her clothes and underwear as he held her up against a wall.

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