{"id":48425,"date":"2026-06-23T07:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:15:13","slug":"murrell-to-be-sentenced-for-stealing-snp-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48425\/","title":{"rendered":"Murrell to be sentenced for stealing SNP funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Murrell to be sentenced for stealing SNP funds\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDebsnPZVzw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMurrell to be sentenced for stealing SNP funds<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNicola Sturgeon\u2019s estranged husband is facing jail for stealing more than \u00a3400,000 from the SNP over a 12-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Murrell, the party\u2019s former chief executive, used the funds to make hundreds of extravagant purchases including a \u00a3124,550 motorhome, cars, jewellery, luxury homewares and designer stationery. He also falsified accounting records and created fake invoices in an attempt to cover up his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Last month he admitted to embezzling a total of \u00a3400,310.65 over a 12-year period between August 2010 and October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Murrell\u2019s guilty plea has raised questions about Ms Sturgeon\u2019s insistence that she did not know about her estranged husband\u2019s wrongdoing. <\/p>\n<p>The former Scottish first minister claims she was \u201cdeceived, misled and betrayed\u201d by Murrell and that she has been \u201ccompletely exonerated\u201d following a police investigation into SNP finances which included a search of the home they shared.<\/p>\n<p>The case has also led to widespread calls for inquiries into Murrell\u2019s wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Murrell is currently being held on remand and is expected to arrive at the High Court in Edinburgh in the back of a prison van to be sentenced by judge Lord Young.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just \u00a31 for 3 months. Start your free trial now:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscribe\/digitalsub\/3for1\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_pvid_conversion-subscription_editorial-iniative_03-22_EGW-13_organic_youtube<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest headlines: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/<\/p>\n<p>Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com\/TelegraphTV are websites of The Telegraph, the UK&#8217;s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murrell to be sentenced for stealing SNP funds Nicola Sturgeon\u2019s estranged husband is facing jail for stealing more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[33256,2300,5098,33258,337],"class_list":["post-48425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-murrell","tag-sentencing","tag-snp","tag-sturgeon","tag-the-telegraph"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116798525586107469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}