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Sturgeon says sorry for letter and admits ‘I got some things wrong’

Deputy First Minister Nicola ­Sturgeon has apologised to the Scottish Parliament and admitted she got “some things wrong” after sending a letter to a court pleading for a convicted fraudster not to be sent to jail.

Ms Sturgeon helped fend off Labour calls for her resignation by saying she regretted describing fraudster Abdul Rauf’s crime as a mistake in the note to a sheriff and insisted she had not meant to downplay the

seriousness of the crime he had committed.