Opinion | The Guardian•Yesterday
We know what former SNP chief Peter Murrell bought with £400,000 of embezzled funds. What I’d like to know is why | Gaby Hinsliff
I t sounds like the haul of an unhappy trophy wife, filling her empty days with retail therapy. Rather it’s part of the charge sheet against Peter Murrell, former Scottish National party (SNP) chief executive and estranged husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, who pleaded guilty this week to slowly embezzling more than £400,000 from the party to which they both devoted their lives and blowing much of it on designer luxuries. Essentially, her story is that they had separate bank accounts, and that she was too busy running Scotland to question who paid for their £3,070 robotic lawnmower, or revamped home library.
