cottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay said: “Peter Murrell has finally taken the rap for being a thieving magpie – but he used vast sums of the stolen cash to feather the marital nest he shared with Nicola Sturgeon.
“His crime spree took place right under her nose over many years while they jointly held a vice-like grip on the SNP.
“You would need to be a particularly gullible member of Nicola Sturgeon’s fan club to swallow her preposterous protestations of ignorance about her husband’s criminal racket.
“In a bombshell leaked video, Sturgeon shot down concerns about the SNP’s finances when we now know that her party was being plundered by her husband.
“In the same video, she also issued a menacing warning to SNP colleagues to keep their mouths shut. Will she now explain why she told them that everything was fine?
“And as a supposed master of fine detail, is it really plausible to believe that she didn’t notice that her crooked husband was spending money like a lottery jackpot winner? Did she never think to ask Peter where the money was coming from?
“And if the SNP’s chief executive, who was appointed by John Swinney, is willing to steal from their own supporters, is anyone surprised that the party swipes so much tax from the wages of hard-working Scots?”