In a statement issued through Rape Crisis Scotland, the woman said the claims were "fundamentally untrue". First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also "strongly refuted" the allegations after being quizzed over the issue at her regular coronavirus briefing. It comes after Mr Davis used parliamentary privilege to claim messages disclosed by a whistleblower show there was a "concerted effort by senior members of the SNP to encourage complaints" against the former first minister. He also alleged messages exist that suggest Ms Sturgeon’s chief of staff, Liz Lloyd, had been “interfering” in the complaints process in February 2018. A Holyrood inquiry is looking at how the Scottish Government botched a probe into sexual misconduct claims made against Mr Salmond in 2018.