The estranged husband of Scotland's former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for embezzling more than 400 thousand pounds from the SNP.

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 estranged husband of former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison.