Recap: Former SNP chief Peter Murrell sentenced to 5 years and 3 months in prison
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The 61-year-old used the funds to make hundreds of extravagant purchases, including a £124,550 motorhome, cars, jewellery, luxury homewares and designer stationery.
Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the SNP who embezzled more than £400,000 from the party, has been jailed for more than five years.
Lord Young sentenced Murrell, the estranged husband of former SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, to a backdated sentence of five years and three months at the High Court in Edinburgh.
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Murrell, 61, entered the dock of the court shortly after 9.30am, having arrived in a prison van.
Lord Young told Murrell he had committed a “calculated crime of dishonesty”, with a “large number of fraudulent acts over a 12-year period while you were chief executive officer of the SNP”.
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