The lawyer representing former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has himself been reported to Police Scotland for alleged "hate speech" in a bizarre consequence of Scotland's controversial hate crime laws. Kerr argues those remarks crossed the very legal threshold Scotland's Hate Crime and Public Order Act was designed to police. "I have reported Aamer Anwar to Police Scotland," Kerr said in a statement. In correspondence sent to Police Scotland, Kerr argued Anwar had labelled campaigners concerned about illegal immigration as "terrorists" while portraying Farage as radicalising Scots. Sturgeon's government championed Scotland's sweeping hate crime legislation, which has so far seen a chilling effect on free speech.