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They had also pleaded not guilty before Wednesday's sentencing.

Findlay says SNP ministers have failed to build new prisons, reform community sentencing and invest in technology, such as alcohol monitoring tags used in other parts of the UK.

His hearing on Wednesday comes one day after the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy campaigners - part of a group known as the Hong Kong 47 - in the city’s largest trial under the national security law.

Now it’s not clear whether the case will be dismissed or whether sentencing will be punted until after Trump’s second term in office.

Trump's sentencing is scheduled for 26 November, but it could be delayed further.