Get the latest news and updates from Dawn
EDINBURGH: The ex-husband of Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon was jailed for five years and three months on Tuesday, for embezzling more than 400,000 ($529,000) from the pro-independence Scottish National Party.
Peter Murrell pleaded guilty last month after a years-long probe into the party’s finances which shook Scotland’s ruling party and led to several high-profile resignations.
Sturgeon, who denied any knowledge of the crimes and was cleared in the investigation, quit as the head of Scotland’s devolved administration in Edinburgh in February 2023.
Murrell, 61, who was the SNP’s chief executive for over two decades until 2023, was arrested in April of that year after officers searched the house he shared with Sturgeon.
