{"id":48441,"date":"2026-06-23T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48441\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:51:00","slug":"former-snp-chief-executive-peter-murrell-sentencing-for-embezzling-400000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48441\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell sentencing for embezzling \u00a3400,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell sentencing for embezzling \u00a3400,000\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YnYNeyYnXNA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFormer SNP chief executive Peter Murrell sentencing for embezzling \u00a3400,000<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFormer SNP chief executive Peter Murrell used party charge card and created fake invoices to buy hundreds of thousands of pounds&#8217; worth of items, including a \u00a3100,000 motorhome and a \u00a33,000 robotic lawnmower with party donations, a court heard.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court in Edinburgh heard he embezzled \u00a3400,310.65 from the SNP\u2019s principal bank account, \u201cover which he had control\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He is being sentenced at Edinburgh High Court on Tuesday.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nFor more of the biggest news stories in the UK and around the world, visit the ITV News YouTube channel: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Subscribe to ITV News In Full on YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ITVNewsInFull\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at: http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell sentencing for embezzling \u00a3400,000 Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell used party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[44977,44978,44985,44982,44980,380,379,44984,44981,33556,44983,33225,44987,17846,44986,12407,44976,44975,44979,44974,31066,5769,8840],"class_list":["post-48441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-edinburgh-court","tag-embezzlement-case-uk","tag-fake-invoices-case","tag-fraud-allegations-uk","tag-high-court-edinburgh","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-motorhome-scandal-snp","tag-murrell-trial","tag-nicola-sturgeon-husband","tag-party-finances-scandal","tag-peter-murrell","tag-peter-murrell-sentencing","tag-political-scandal-uk","tag-scottish-national-party-news","tag-scottish-politics","tag-snp-donations","tag-snp-finances","tag-snp-investigation","tag-snp-scandal","tag-uk-breaking-news","tag-uk-news-today","tag-uk-politics-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116798627676191242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441","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=48441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}