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Nicola Sturgeon: 'I'm Serving A Sentence For A Crime I Did Not Commit'
The former first minister of Scotland has insisted she was completely unaware her then-husband was taking embezzling funds from the SNP.
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Nicola Sturgeon has told the BBC she is “serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit” in relation to her ex-husband’s embezzlement of SNP funds.
Peter Murrell, chief executive of the Scottish National Party between 2001 and 2023, pleaded guilty to taking more than £400,000 from the SNP this week.
He has been charged with embezzling funds from the party between August 2010 and October 2022.
Arrested in 2023 and charged in 2024, Murrell has been remanded in custody and is set to be sentenced at the end of June.
He made a series of extravagant purchases while he was SNP chief, including a £124,550 campervan for his own personal use.
His then-wife Sturgeon was also arrested in 2024 and questioned by........