Nicola Sturgeon didn't know her husband stole £400,000

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Really? She lived with this guy and didn't know? She had a camper van parked on the drive and didn't know he stole the money to buy it?

I don't buy it.

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True! That will surely have been a factor in the decision of (alleged) complicit in fraudster like NS, after all.

How many people can you sleep in your jar of handcream 🤣 ?

NS was her husband's boss though. So she knew exactly what he earned. She also signed off all his SNP treasury reports. In other words, she was the final check that they were not fraudulent. Though of course, if she and PM would have wanted things to be good governance and no risk of corruption by a wife signing off her husband's accounting, NS would have refused to appoint PM as treasury and he would have refused to accept the position.

Its not really a coincidence that a couple who set up a dodgy arrangement that enabled fraud, went on to commit fraud, and the wife insisting with wide eyed innocence that she had no idea where all the money came from for the expensive things her hubby was flaunting in their home.

Pull the other one.

Her testimony was also questionable in the Alex Salmond affair.

'Mr Salmond has accused officials close to Ms Sturgeon - including her husband Peter Murrell, the SNP's chief executive - of plotting against him. They all deny these claims.'

'a separate inquiry by MSPs has described the government's actions as "deeply flawed", and questioned some of Ms Sturgeon's evidence.'

Salmond and Sturgeon: What is the controversy all about? - BBC News

Well I think the problem is structural. The SNP will nearly always have a leader who demands separation but at the same time negotiates with Westminster. In the end you notice that all the fire goes out of the SNP in Westminster when they send their MPs there, they like London and contrive to stay. They are all TruScots until they sit down on the benches.

I’m sure a lot of their voters don’t mind because they see the SNP as getting a better deal for Scotland. But that’s different from filleting the members account to go to Selfridges.

Murray served as SNP chief executive for more than 20 years, yet starting embezzling party funds within a month of his marriage to Sturgeon. I wouldn’t be surprised if they cooked up the whole thing between them with the agreement he would be the fall guy.

His name is Murrell

Just like you're a feminist, eh Nicola?

The BBC list is good.

The shenanigans around the Jag is interesting. I assume something went wrong with it but he had faked the paperwork and couldn’t get it sorted so had to sell it at a knock down price on WeBuyAnyCarNoQuestionsAsked.Com

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yeevz915jo

her statements have been written by her top end legal team, that's 100% for sure. I think from what she's said (they've instructed her to say) she/they reckon it's possible to claim there's a firewall between her and her estranged husband and he can get all the blame and she none.

I think that will probably work, in the legal courts, but the court of public opinion is a different matter entirely. Nobody is buying what her legal team are selling, at all.

Normally, I would agree, however the big difference here is that she had access to the accounts and indeed signed them off when the auditors resigned. She did not question these statements, nor why the auditors resigned, nor showed any concern when their own finance committee resigned die to lack of financial transparency. She even went as far as to warn those off from questioning these statements accounts.

Of course she knew. Although I expect that they probably did NOT have this conversation:

Nicola: Are you skimming Pete? Cos camper van?

Peter: I am yes. You are now officially in cahoots with me.

And on that basis, she has convinced herself she 'didn't know'.

I hope they are able to find traces of conversation or movement of money which makes it clear that she did know, and I hope she ends up in jail. There is nothing more deplorable than being in a position of SUCH power and abusing the trust of the benefactors and honest people who put and keep you there.

Self righteous soap-boxing on the news night after night whilst stealing from the hand that feeds you. Vile couple.

'two Neutrogena hand creams (£2.50)'

He needed this because he is a complete wanker.

But NS was his boss, and was supposed to sign off SNP accounts.

Anyone else playing Murrell Bingo and ticking off how many retailers they personally have shopped at from that list?

I know - don’t know what happened there 😂

I'm waiting for the motorhome to appear on our drive as DH bought me some handcream for my birthday.

You seem to have forgotten that she also had responsibilities as leader of the party and that she had blocked investigations when others raised concerns.

It's Sturgeon who now seems to be suggesting that she had a sham marriage.

🤣

He needed this after all his handwashing

“The Thane of Bute (house) has’t chorn such loot
Out, Out damned spot
All the Neutrogena of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand of mine.”

And a packet of curry paste on the list.

They have.

Anyone else Google ‘slouch pouch onesie’?

I'm not in Scotland but does the First Minister live officially at Bute House in Edinburgh? I know NS always made a big deal about being some humble down to earth wee Scots lassie and all that and living in a semi in Glasgow, but she did have another residence.
When the stories emerged about Alex Salmond, it became evident that his marriage was a sham and he was up to all sorts of shenanigans in Bute House. So Sturgeon and Morrell were possibly living separately for a lot of the time, with the 'modest Glasgow house' being a bit of a front for her 'one of the people' shtick.

How many Scottish businesses?