Former Rangers FC chief Charles Green ‘should never have been prosecuted’

Former Rangers chief executive Charles Green leaving Glasgow Sheriff Court in October 2015 Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA

A former chief executive of Rangers FC is to receive a public apology from Scotland’s senior law officer, who has admitted he “should never have been prosecuted” in connection with his takeover of the football club.

Charles Green will receive damages as well as the apology from Lord Advocate James Wolffe after what his solicitors, Jones Whyte LLP of Glasgow, described as a “damaging, traumatic and stressful life event”.