Peter Murrell was chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP) while his wife Nicola Sturgeon was party leader and at time First Minister of Scotland. A piece in The Guardian. Extracts:

“Murrell bought a luxury SUV – a Jaguar iPace – for £81,000, subsided with £57,500 stolen from the SNP money, which he later sold for £47,378, pocketing the proceeds. There was also a £124,550 Niesmann+Bischoff motorhome, which he parked on his mother’s driveway, and for which he created fake invoices.

He used a further £16,489 of SNP money to part-fund the purchase of a £32,989 Volkswagen Golf.

Murrell also spent on high-end pens and watches: £9,350 on two Bremont watches, [J4MB: One for himself, one for his mother, no doubt] £4,225 on a Starwalker World Time fountain pen, £1,407 on two Montblanc Boheme Noir fountain pens and £700 on a boldly striped Great Characters The Beatles Special Edition Fountain Pen in 14-karat gold.

In November 2020, the indictment notes that he spent £650.75 at Fortnum & Mason, buying two of its Feasting Advent calendars for £400 and a Musical Santa’s Sleigh Advent calendar at £165. Earlier in 2020, £2,618.16 went on two Lalique Feuilles pepper & salt grinders. There was a silver wine coaster, too, for £3,500 – and a £2,495 jewellery box.”

Sturgeon has claimed total ignorance of her husband’s embezzlement of party funds, and the police long ago decided not to investigate her further. If the odious woman is telling the truth, I’m a Norwegian Blue parrot.

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