{"id":355013,"date":"2026-06-23T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/peter-murrell-sentenced-to-five-years-for-embezzling-400k-of-snp-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:00:22","slug":"peter-murrell-sentenced-to-five-years-for-embezzling-400k-of-snp-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/peter-murrell-sentenced-to-five-years-for-embezzling-400k-of-snp-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Murrell sentenced to five years for embezzling \u00a3400k of SNP fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/fZCzQyuO2VM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Murrell sentenced to five years for embezzling \u00a3400k of SNP fund\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fZCzQyuO2VM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison, after he admitted to embezzling more than \u00a3400,000 from the party.<\/p>\n<p>Murrell &#8211; the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon &#8211; used the funds to make hundreds of extravagant purchases, including a \u00a3124,550 motorhome, cars, jewellery, luxury homewares and designer stationery.<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old also falsified accounting records and created fake invoices in a bid to cover up his wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison, after he admitted to embezzling more than \u00a3400,000 from the party. Murrell &#8211; the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon &#8211; used the funds to make hundreds of extravagant purchases, including a \u00a3124,550 motorhome, cars, jewellery, luxury homewares and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-355013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Peter Murrell sentenced to five years for embezzling \u00a3400k of SNP fund | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Peter Murrell sentenced to five years for embezzling \u00a3400k of SNP fund for free, here on News ISC. 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