23 jun 2026
Nicola Sturgeon’s ex-husband sentenced to five years in prison

LONDON Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison after embezzling funds from his own party. In May, Murrell pleaded guilty to embezzling over 400,000 from the party. The former SNP supremo who ran the backroom operations of the pro-independence party for more than two decades - made hundreds of personal purchases with party funds between 2010 and 2022, falsely recording them in SNP accounts. Those purchases included a £124,550 luxury camper van, bought in 2020.
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