Peter Murrell pleaded guilty to embezzling funds in his role as chief executive of the Scottish National Party. He held the SNP's purse strings while his then-wife, Nicola Sturgeon, was Scottish First Minister.

The Peter Murrell scandal has rocked the SNP and shocked the public given the sheer scale and, indeed, strangeness of the fraud he committed.

The Peter Murrell scandal has rocked the SNP and shocked the public given the sheer scale and, indeed, strangeness of the fraud he committed.