It has been another one of those difficult weeks for Nicola Sturgeon . Another man she thought she knew well turns out to have been beyond the pale.

Peter Murrell, who separated from Scotland's former first minister last year, has been placed behind bars after admitting his guilt at the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday.

Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband Peter Murrell entered a guilty plea to embezzling over £400,000 from the SNP