Nicola Sturgeon’s spouse Peter Murrell has been jailed for five years and three months after he admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP party.
Last month, the 61-year-old former SNP chief executive admitted siphoning off the huge sum from SNP funds over a 12-year period.
Murrell – estranged husband of former First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon – falsified accounting records and created fake invoices in a bid to cover up his wrongdoing.
Sentencing him at the High Court in Edinburgh, Judge Lord Young told Murrell he had committed a ‘calculated crime of dishonesty’, with a ‘large number of fraudulent acts over a 12-year period while
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