Top earning former SNP Executive (Peter Murrell) to receive legal aid!!!
BBC (02/07/2025): Peter Murrell granted legal aid over embezzlement charge:
"Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell has been granted legal aid after being charged with embezzlement.
Mr Murrell, the husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, was charged in April of last year in a police investigation into SNP finances...
Legal aid is typically granted to people who cannot afford to pay for legal help themselves..."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8z7y0xj0xo
https://twitter.com/CapKatieB1/status/1940472779654287471
BBC (2022): Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell gave £100,000 loan to SNP:
"Nicola Sturgeon's husband gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a "cash flow" issue after the last election.
"Peter Murrell, the SNP's chief executive, loaned the party £107,620 in June 2021.
The SNP had repaid about half of the money by October of that year..."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-63973961
Daily Record (2023): Peter Murrell's posh Portuguese bolthole where he enjoys sunshine and bars with wife Nicola Sturgeon:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/peter-murrells-posh-portuguese-hideaway-29721531
Daily Express (2023): Why was Peter Murrell's secret salary missing from SNP accounts for eight years?
"...examined party accounts published by the Electoral Commission to establish Mr Murrell's earning from the SNP over the years.
Although he took up the position in 1999, there are no accounts available from the electoral watchdog until a decade later. They show that Mr Murrell earned £62,993 in 2008.
His earnings rose to £109,492 in 2011 before falling to £77,024 the following year… and then the chief executive's salary abruptly vanishes from the accounts for eight years."
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/peter-murrells-secret-salary-missing-29491806