Peter Murrell embezzlement trial

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Peter Murrell is in court in Edinburgh today. This is for the preliminary hearing which was postponed from before the election. It will be interesting to see how the criminal proceedings proceed.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/peter-murrell-arrives-at-court-ahead-of-hearing-on-embezzlement-charges/ar-AA23Ybuy?ocid=msedgntp&pc

Jack McConnel was on the news this morning almost gleefully asking for an investigation, I actually laughed at how gloaty he was about the whole thing 😀

That is hilarious, the cows on the lawn 😀

Thanks for the archive link. I have so missed reading John Crace and he smashed this one.

didn't they sanctimoniously go after him for much less??

@GreatWhiteWail The thing about this interview was that Laura K let her wriggle and appear to lie. That’s the skill. NS said some very silly things and was playing for sympathy. Did anyone believe her? Of course not. It’s like Andrew MW and his interview with Emily Maitlis - it was not believable. The interviewers give them the rope…….

See, i don’t think Salmond’s comments, which he only made long after he left and after they’d fallen out, show him in a good light at all.

He chose Nicola Sturgeon as his running mate when he wanted back in. He knew that if the strategy was successful she’d be party leader temporarily while he changed from MP to MSP. Peter Murrell was CEO then. So it was a perfectly fine set up according to Alex Salmond while it suited him.

He also had her as his deputy and basically mentored her to be the next leader. Yet during that spell he put nothing in place to protect the party. Nor use his level of popularity and power to displace Murrell (the party leader cannot sack/get rid of the CEO as far as I can see - they are not actually in sole charge of everything).

Nor did he notice Murrell, who he’d known for many years longer than NS, thieving on his watch

Oh there will be howls of outrage at Westminster interfering in Scotland's governance if Westminster holds the enquiry.

I can't remember who made the comment but usually where any organisation or business has been defrauded they're usually aware of it long before the guilty verdict. And usually the organisation or business does indeed co-operate fully and assists the police because they'd like to get their money back.

Yes , they most certainly did

So glad you can find anything amusing in this situation

He did and covered it up.