Andy Coulson says he will 'vigorously contest' perjury charges

Counsel for the former head of communications will fight accusations PM says "if you give a judgment

Andy Coulson said he "vigorously contest" the allegations of Strathclyde police that he lied under oath about his knowledge of hacking at the News of the World.

His lawyers in London, DLA Piper, said: "Andy Coulson vigorously contest the allegations of perjury against him yesterday by Strathclyde Police, if they ever lead to a lawsuit have any other comments that moment .. "

• Coulson, 44, former Prime Minister's chief of communications, has been charged with perjury Wednesday night, about 15 hours after being arrested at his home in south London and taken to Glasgow for be questioned by police in Strathclyde.

was arrested in connection with the investigation of force in Operation Rubicon alleged perjury of witnesses in the trial of Tommy Sheridan, the socialist politician who was convicted by the High Court in Glasgow December 2010 of lying under oath when he won £ 200,000 libel victory Coulson old newspaper, the News of the World.

Coulson, who left Govan police station in the back of a pickup truck last night to avoid the cameras, has not been given a hearing date.

previously informed by the lawyer Paul McBride QC famous before his sudden death in Pakistan this year, Coulson is understood to have maintained a small law firm in Scotland for criminal perjury.

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