DISGRACED former MSP Bill Walker will be released from jail this week, after serving only half his 12-month sentence.
The ex-politician, who was exposed as a serial abuser of women, is to be freed from Dumfries Prison.
During his trial last year, Sheriff Kathrine Mackie heard how Walker gave his first wife Maureen Traquair a black eye days before their wedding in 1967.
Walker, elected as the SNP MSP for Dunfermline at the last Holyrood poll, is planning to appeal against his conviction and has a hearing scheduled for April 17.
A spokesperson for the Scottish Prison Service declined to comment.
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