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Peter Murrell has been jailed for five years and three months after embezzling over £400,000 from SNP funds. The former chief executive of the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband used the money to make hundreds of purchases. These included a £124,550 motorhome, cars, jewellery, luxury homew...
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Peter Murrell has been jailed for five years and three months after embezzling over £400,000 from SNP funds. The former chief executive of the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband us...
"Murrell occupied a significant position of privilege and power in public life in Scotland," assistant chief constable Stuart Houston of Police Scotland said.
Former husband of Nicola Sturgeon sentenced to more than five years behind bars after making extravagant purchases with party funds
The former party chief executive had admitted embezzling more than £400,000 over a 12-year period.
The 61-year-old sat silent and impassive as detectives challenged him on his “outrageous” spending on pens and other items that he bought with money embezzled from the SNP.
The Peter Murrell scandal has rocked the SNP and shocked the public given the sheer scale and, indeed, strangeness of the fraud he committed.
Peter Murrell had admitted to embezzling funds from his own party
Estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon is sentenced for stealing from party over 12-year period Peter Murrell has been sentenced to five years and three months in jail after he admitted embez...
The former SNP chief executive intends to repay the money he embezzled, but a separate court process will determine how much he must give back and how the funds can be returned to the party.
Murrell entered the dock of the court shortly after 9.30am, having arrived in a prison van.
Estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon pleaded guilty to charges last month
PETER Murrell was "unable to stop" embezzling money from the SNP, judge Lord Young said...
Peter Murrell is the former husband of ex-SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, who suddenly resigned in 2023.
NICOLA Sturgeon’s shamed fraudster husband was today jailed for five years after admitting embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP. Peter Murrell, 61, returned to the dock at the High Co...