Peter Murrell jailed for over five years after embezzling £400k from SNP funds

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Peter Murrell, the husband of the former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon, was sentenced on Tuesday after he admitted to buying a bizarre range of items with the Scottish National Party's money.

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Peter Murrell jailed for over five years after embezzling £400k from SNP funds.

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Peter Murrell has been jailed for five years and three months after embezzling £400,000 from SNP funds.

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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 homewares and designer stationery.He also falsified accounting records and issued fake invoices to cover up his wrongdoing.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Murrell embezzled a total of £400,310.65 over a 12-year period between August 2010 and October 2022.Delivering the sentence in the High Court in Edinburgh, Judge Lord Young described his actions as "a calculated crime of dishonesty".He said: "You found yourself unable to stop this offending, and it was only the detection of the crime which brought it to an end."Your actions involved a significant breach of trust to the organisation which you led, and to the individual members and donors of that organisation because of your position of...

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