A timeline of the police investigation into the SNP's funding and finances, known as Operation Branchform, which has concluded with the guilty plea entered by former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell for embezzling more than £400,000

Among those implicated in the inquiry is Peter Murrell, the husband of Nicola Sturgeon, who has been charged with allegedly embezzling nearly £460,000 from the party

Murrell, who was the nationalists' chief executive for 22 years, pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh this morning.

Murrell pleaded guilty to the charges when he appeared in court