“It would be nice to think that Sturgeon will shuffle off into the backwoods never to be heard or seen again”.
I fear she is too brass necked for that. She will say she has been cleared by the police. Although according to the website which exposed the corruption (and did the job the BBC and the Scottish media should have been doing) her idea of co-operation was to turn her chair to the wall and refuse to speak for seven hours.
Sturgeon may well have been cleared by the police but she has not been acquitted in the court of public opinion. If what remains of her cheerleading fan club thinks that is unfair, bear in mind she used exactly the same argument against Alex Salmond when he walked free from court in the spring of 2020. A man she launched a vindictive campaign against and in effect hounded into an early grave.