Nicola Sturgeon faces calls to explain what she knew about her ‘thieving magpie’ husband Peter Murrell embezzling £400,000 from the SNP and splashing it on expensive goodies

Nicola Sturgeon is facing mounting demands to explain what she knew about her estranged husband’s use of SNP funds after he admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.

Critics said it was inconceivable the former first minister and nationalist leader was unaware of what Peter Murrell was doing over the space of more than a decade when they ruled the party.

Murrell, 61, who was the nationalists’ chief executive for 22 years, is today behind bars after admitting his guilt at the High Court in Edinburgh this morning.

He used the cash to buy a £125,000 campervan and other luxury goods including Lalique salt and

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