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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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13. Big day
Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon at the opening of the Queensferry Crossing Bridge on September 4, 2017. | Johnston Press
14. Winter vote
First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon, votes in the UK General Election with her husband Peter Murrell at Broomhouse Community Hall in Ballieston in December 2019 after Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century. | Getty Images
15. Casting ballots
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon arrives to cast her vote with her husband Peter Murrell during the 2019 General Election at Broomhouse Community Hall polling station, in Glasgow. | ROBERT PERRY/EPA-EFE/Shutterstoc
16. Rehearsal
Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, and her husband Peter Murrell attend a rehearsal of her SNP Campaign Conference speech in Glasgow in March 2021. | POOL/AFP via Getty Images