Katrine Trolle

Katrine Trolle (born 1974) was the Scottish Socialist Party candidate in the Scottish Parliament election, 2003 in Aberdeen North. She obtained 644 votes.

She comes from Denmark, and worked for a time as an occupational therapist in Dundee.

She was also a witness in the defamation action brought by Tommy Sheridan, "Sheridan v News International". She claimed in the witness box that she had had a sexual relationship with him. According to her account their relationship began during the Glasgow Anniesland by-elections, 2000, at one point he had taken her to "Cupids" sex club in Manchester, and at another point they had had sex in Sheridan's marital bedroom while his wife Gail was out at her work. Two witnesses said they saw them go upstairs to a bedroom in Trolle's home. [ [http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/66143.html] Dead link|date=March 2008]

He claimed that their relationship was purely political. Mobile phone records showed that he made her a large number of telephone calls, he has claimed that this was to discuss Denmark's minimum wage policy. Since the trial it has been pointed out that Denmark does not have a minimum wage (see List of minimum wages by country).

After the trial she continues to stand by her story. She had left the SSP before the trial, but at an SSP rally in September 2006, shortly after Sheridan left, she announced that she was re-joining. [http://www.sundayherald.com/57706] SSP convenor Colin Fox described her as a thoroughly nice woman who had been badly treated. In early 2007 she moved back to Denmark, but she told people she intended to become involved in the Red-Green Alliance (Denmark).

An election leaflet from her election campaign shows her photograph and Sheridan's with the slogan "Dare to be Different". [ [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/aspect/aspect2003/soc/a03socabn.htm Aspect 2003: Katrine Trolle, Scottish Socialist Party candidate, Aberdeen North, 2003 ] ]

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* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/scotland/story/0,,1843604,00.html Interview] after the trial from "The Observer"
* [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1127932006 Report] on her evidence from "The Scotsman"