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Today (Monday, May 25) has seen former SNP chief executive officer Peter Murrell plead guilty to embezzling more than £400,000 from his party over a period of over 12 years.
Mr Murrell was married to former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the Oran Mor venue, in Glasgow’s West End, on July 16, 2010.
The couple initially met in 1988 at a SNP youth event and started a relationship in 2003 before Murrell proposed to her on Hogmanay in 2009.
Ms Sturgeon announced that the couple would be getting divorced in January last year, around nine months after Murrell was re-arrested (he was previously arrested in April 2023 before being released without charge) and formally charged with embezzlement of party funds in April 2024.
It brought to an end a relationship that dominated Scotland’s political landscape for more than a decade.
Here are 20 pictures that tell the story of their marriage.
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9. New bill
Nicola Sturgeon with husband Peter Murrell. at the SNP conference 2016 where a new independence referendum bill was announced. | TSPL
10. Scottish Parliamentary Election
Scotland's First Minister and Leader of the Scottish National Party Nicola Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell pose for photographers as they leave a Polling Station at Broomhouse Community Hall in East Glasgow, on May 5, 2016, after casting their votes in the Holyrood Election. | AFP via Getty Images
11. A right royal occasion
HRH the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh flanked by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell at the opening ceremony of the Queensferry Crossing at North Queensferry. | JP licence
12. Now open
The Right Reverend Dr Derek Browning MA BD DMin, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, with Peter Murrell and First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon at the opening of the Queensferry Crossing in 2017. | Johnston Press