The husband of Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the finances of their Scottish National Party (SNP), UK media reported.
In a statement on Wednesday, Police Scotland said they had taken a 58-year-old man into custody for questioning over the party’s “funding and finances”. The Guardian and the BBC reported that the man was Peter Murrell, the husband of the former Scotland leader, Sturgeon.
The police investigation is looking at what happened to more than 600,000 pounds ($748,920) raised by Scottish independence campaigners in 2017, which was supposed to have been ring-fenced for spending on that issue but was missing from the party’s filed accounts.
Police Scotland said they were carrying out searches at a number of addresses as part of the investigation.
“The man is in custody and is being questioned by Police Scotland detectives,” the force added.
Police were seen outside the Glasgow home of Murrell and Sturgeon, and at SNP headquarters in Edinburgh.
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When Is Her Arrest😮
Why?
THERE STILL DECIDING WHICH PRISON TO PUT HER/HIM/IT IN
@James Findlay Why Not Whip Her On Live TV
You have to be completely screwed in the brain to believe or trust any politician of any party of any political orientation. And they still face the public with no shame or screpules. Madness.
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Who is Nicola Surgeon? Nicola Sturgeon…
Banned in the eu the imp all mps built the biggest ban type waste chem recycling plant in glasgow lungs no more why?
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When Boris Johnson and the other criminals in Government?
I wouldn’t trust ANY politician as far as I could throw them.
100%
Is it beyond the realms of possible that the British crown and her prosecution service are attempting to black ball their opponents I am just asking the question Is it as likely as the man himself being a thief and a fraud Oldest trick in the book to rid yourself of bothersome opponents by vilifying them in public
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About Time. Jail the whole lot☘️🇬🇧👍
Including the Tories?
Please keep it relevant .
Dude,, include the Scottish flag
@ro mo R.I.P. S.N.P .
@William Meek independance is still very much alive 😘
What about the fish wife. Arrest her as well☘️🇬🇧👍
In the ANC in SA it has been going on for decades and it get swept under the carpet 😢
Err, ok, thanks for that.
58 ? HE LOOKS MORE LIKE 80. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE THE STURGEON CREEPING UP ON YOU IN THE NIGHT.
Urgh…just got a picture in my head…URGH!
He is definitely not 58 surly not 😅
We need an election now.
Trmpers was taken to court.
DIVORCE ON THE HORIZON FOR SURE BUT TEFLON NICOLA WILL BLEAT I DID NOT KNOW WHICH I DONT BELIEVE
So that’s why she resigned
… and there is your answer as to why she resigned
Oops
So, in custody means IDS, right? That was fortunate for Nicola that she decided to jack it all in before she found out about her husband getting arrested, otherwise tongues may have talked. Doh! 🤣
That’s why India got rid of the British in 1947.
Well seems like she was tipped off before his arrest👎
Is Wee Jimmie also helping the police with their investigation ?
Nicola Sturgeon just made a statement in relation to her Husbands Arrest “I’m sorry who are you talking about I have no recolection of ever knowing this man let alone being married to him, I cannot remember even talking to this man. I’m sorry if I seem confused but these facts evade me. I have nothing more to add.
Murrell has just declared that he is gender neutral. He can go to the same prison as Krankie. Where’s William Wallace or Kurkku when you need them ?
Hilarious so THIS is why she resigned? Another hypocrite hoisted by her own petard !
Happy Days. Well done Al Jazeera for allowing comments to be posted.
Next Trans in Jail
Well well well i told you so get the police to look into where did all the billions go from england plus where is the money gone for laptops and bikes that were promised to all school chidren ????
Deflection again my goodness does she have to kill your child before you see she’s a wrong un.
Now put that rapist behind bars, that man that graped the 13 year old kid
The OdiouSNP in freefall now with a moron at the helm, hilarious watching them all lying and trying to do an unconvincing job pretending that everything is great…… 😂
Putting the previous leader in jail seems to be a tradition in Scotland. Today sturgeon. Before that sturgeon tried to put Alex salmond in jail.
🤣🤣🤣🤣well spotted!
Sorry I’m having a bad case of Sturgeonitous, I can’t remember that.
Some they gutted………
They always blame the man, even for her crimes
😂😂 Eh it’s the man who committed the crime here. As well as the man before her.
Open your eyes
They are stealing thousands and the rest of us have to struggle to get by.
AJ please always proofread your video titles before you post them.
Why make such errors almost every other day!!
They will get away with it just like Joebama.
The brown envelopes from Westminster obviously were not full enough – the brown envelopes they were receiving for demolishing the independence movement. Now the Scottish public will think they’ve dodged the bullet because if we were independent, we would be crippled with corruption from the offset. Cruel Brittania at least does all of her stealing legally. I wonder how the new FM stands on the chapping aff o hauns for thievery issue.
As we approach 8 billion humans on the planet expect illegal immigration to get worse. No illegal immigrants should be allowed to enter the country. Those that manage to get in illegally should be deported as soon as found without any rights.
Corruption at its FINEST
The tartan clintons and snp crime family exposed.
Well done police, don’t stop now.
On to the wef-minster lib/lab/con crime families next.
Nae comment – first time the Sturgeons will.keep their mouth shut .!!
This is hilarious. Lovin it.
my self also , popcorn at the ready , brilliant start to the year…..every one always knew they had been miss spending the money . if they hadnt things here in Scotland would be so much better .
FIRST STURGEON NOW MURRELL AND NEXT HUMZA STURGEONS LACKI
She knew what was coming.
Same here l feel like having a party lol
the important question. did the police allow her to step down and get a new leader before making the arrest
Den – yes .. another example of police & political corruption
The SNP are a sleazy, corrupt shower of hypocrites. They’ve only stayed in power and won seats at Westminster because the liberal MSM acts as their propagandists.
You always need a Fallguy.
The SNP have been fiddling the books for years 😂😂
Lol now check if they get money from the Tory party as they help to keep them in power , let’s hope Scotland will wake up now to help get them out by voting labour
So when Sturgeon was quizzed about Resigning she said , she had a lot more in the Tank . did she not mean she ” Allegedly ” had a lot more in the Bank ? 🤣🤣🤣
And the rest of the missing money
they were always a minority party . and now we know that the figures that got them there were false .
Looks like they were running it for themselves Bonnie & Clyde
There can be no doubt The crown has no desire to see Scotland Leave the The Untied Kingdom and as it in turn has the sworn the allegiance of the prosecution service and The Police force questions of Transparency need to be handled very carefully indeed otherwise if true What is The difference with Scotland and Ukraine
Is he Klaus Schaubs twin brother.
When the domestic media have gone silent and comments are are not allowed…
It’s all a big sham. SNP police are corrupt , this will never be an open honest investigation .
Sturgeon will lie her way through this , as will Murrell .
It’s just a matter of who throws who under the bus!!
As an independence supporter I never trusted the SNP nor Mr and Mrs Murrel. Why is Scotland still in the UK after 15 years of them being in charge of the SNP? Other nations left the British empire without begging for permission from the colonists. I’m disgusted with this development but regrettably no surprised.
I know what you mean, but Scotland is not in the British Empire (which ended decades ago). Scotland is a constituent nation of the UK, one of the two kingdoms which united, and has been represented by Scottish MPs at Westminster since 1707. Westminster, not Holyrood, is the successor of the old Scottish parliament. Scotland technically can’t become “independent” like Nigeria in 1960 but it can secede from the Union.
Dougie Ross’s meeting with Sunak was to bring down the SNP by any and all means , as they know theyve only got a few months the destroy the SNP or Scotland will walk away from the most corrupt and criminal insane Westminster government in history . They also need something to divert the actions of the DUP before they move back to bombs and bullets and as that threat grows closer through the Tories stupidity and greed. Happy England and the boats keep coming . Maybe the Scots should support the boat people as they’ll sink England faster than any high tide.
CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST FOR THE SCOTTISH NASTY PARTY
It all comes out in the end.
The SNP is finished. Time to drain the swamp.
🤞 I hope you’re right.
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Why not someone Scottish discussing this?
Tell me this please…..how on Earth can it possibly take months and months to trace the whereabouts of a stash of cash? There are only so many places it could possibly be, what are these idiots cops doing if not stalling?
I’m amazed that it’s police Scotland looking into it. We’ve been told for so long that they were in her pocket. Maybe they’ve realised that they’re finally free. That her pocket has gone down the plughole.
Also, never mind any “latest poll saying a majority would say no to independence “. That has ALWAYS a been the case but Wee Krankie and her abject acolytes just wouldn’t take NO for an answer!
The SNP had been squealing with delight when Boris was going through the wringer.
Nor it is the turn of England to get the beers out the fridge, put the news on and sit back and enjoy.
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Lock them up!
Murrell must have told Nicola Thatcher Sturgeon but he will always say that his wife doesn’t know. £600-000??? Aye right. SNP ARE THE ULTIMATE SCUM OF SCOTLAND.
So I guess this is the real reason she resigned.
Sorry to seem trivial but who will represent Scotland at the Coronation? Nobody from the SNP surely. No not even the new FM. Maybe Ewen MacGregor, or Billy Connelly?
All those Shekels for selling out the Country to their J👀 overlords the Treasonous Greedy ZogBots
Long time coming …they’ve been cooking the books for years I always said never trust a fish especially a sturgeon or a salmon
“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely is an observation Lord Acton made in a letter to Bishop Creighton on April 5, 1887.” Still holds true!
Why is Sturgeon so quiet now when she has so vocal in the past. There has never been a stronger case for the political union to remain in power. There are many disgruntled members of the SNP now than ever.
Socialists stealing off the poor
Snp socialist stealing off the poor
Sean Connery and the likes aren’t here to bail them out this time.
Why is Tory(Nadhim Zahawi) not arrested? Why is it happening now?
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I was in the bathroom 😂❤ herd that wan bfour😊
Where has Nicola’s voice gone ?? .. where are all her anti Union & anti English rants gone ?? .. Karma is beautiful
What goes around comes around for Nicola
Accounting irregularities 😅 stealing off poor people sold on a dream
Why is Tory(Nadhim Zahawi) not arrested? Why is it happening now?
WAKE UP, SCOTLAND! Independence!