Peter Murrell’s embezzlement of SNP funds is a giant fraud on Scots as well as on the party and its supporters.
Mind-boggling in its scale and brazen audacity, it was an egregious breach of trust of enormous proportions.
It’s hard to overstate the significance of this moment for Nationalism and wider Scottish politics – only days after the SNP won its fifth successive Holyrood election victory.
John Swinney will have been relieved that Monday’s hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh happened after the poll on May 7.
It had been scheduled to take place prior to the vote – and doubtless would have
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