An election candidate who is banned from entering the constituency he wants to represent at Westminster has lost a legal bid to join the campaign trail.

Aberdeen South candidate Robert Green returned to Stonehaven Sheriff Court to try to get changes made to two of the bail conditions imposed on him because of a breach of the peace charge he faces.

The hearing was held in private and details of the conditions were not disclosed.

Green represents the mother of Hollie Greig, a 30-year-old woman with Down’s syndrome who says she was sexually assaulted by a sheriff and a senior Grampian Police officer, who is now dead.

In February, Green, 63, appeared from custody at Stonehaven accused of a breach of the peace offence spanning eight months. He was arrested in Aberdeen. He is understood to have been heading for Union Street to tell people about Ms Grieg’s case and his plans to contest the seat.

He is alleged to have committed a breach of the peace between June 9, 2009, and February 12 this year in the Ferryhill, Bridge of Don, Bieldside and Woodside areas of Aberdeen.

Green, of Warrington, Cheshire, was later released on bail. He is standing at the general election as a member of the Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers party, but bail conditions prevent him from entering Aberdeen.

From the Press and Journal