Nicola Sturgeon's spouse Peter Murrell has been jailed for five years and three months after he admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.Last month the 61-year-old former SNP chief executive admitted siphoning off the huge sum from the SNP over a 12-year period. Murrell - estranged husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon - falsified accounting records and created fake invoices in a bid to cover up his wrongdoing.Sentencing him at the High Court in Edinburgh, Judge Lord Young told Murrell he had committed a 'calculated crime of dishonesty', with a 'large number of fraudulent acts over a 12-month period while you were chief executive officer of the SNP.'Murrell used the funds to make hundreds of extravagant purchases, including a £124,550 motorhome, cars, jewellery, luxury homewares and designer stationery.He also falsified accounting records and created fake invoices in a bid to cover up his wrongdoing. Peter Murrell arrives in a prison van at Edinburgh High Court for sentencing. He was jailed for five years and three months - but would have got seven years if he had not pleaded guilty Murrell is put in cuffs and taken away to jail this morning Nicola Sturgeon says she was 'betrayed' by Peter Murrell, who she is now estranged from