Peter Murrell JAILED for five years - so what next? Reaction from Daily Record HQ

Nicola Sturgeon's estranged husband was today jailed for more than five years after embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP. Peter Murrell, the party's disgraced former chief executive, entered the dock of the court shortly after 9.30am, having arrived in a prison van. Lord Young told Murrell he had committed a “calculated crime of dishonesty”, with a “large number of fraudulent acts over a 12-year period while you were chief executive officer of the SNP”. He said the offending increased in frequency and amount over time. He added: “You found yourself unable to stop this offending, and it was only the detection of the crime that brought it to an end.” The judge said Murrell was responsible for a “significant breach of trust” within the SNP and he used his position to get away with the crime. Lord Young said he would have jailed Murrell for more than seven years had he not pled guilty. Sentence was backdated to 25 May of this year, when Murrell’s guilty plea was entered at court. The Daily Record's Neil McIntosh, Paul Hutcheon and Chris McCall react to the seismic news. Read more: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/po... Daily Record Homepage: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ Daily Record Facebook:   / thescottishdailyrecord   Daily Record Instagram:   / scottishdailyrecord   Daily Record Sport Instagram:   / dailyrecord_sport   Daily Record TikTok:   / scottishdailyrecord   Daily Record Sport TikTok:   / dailyrecord_sport   Daily Record Twitter:   / daily_record   Daily Record Newsletters: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/newslet... Join our WhatsApp communities here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages: DAILY RECORD: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/sc... RECORD SPORT RANGERS: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/f... RECORD SPORT CELTIC: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/f... You can get all the latest news, sport, showbiz and comment at DailyRecord.co.uk LIKE | COMMENT | SUBSCRIBE | SHARE #DailyRecord #petermurrell