Nicola Sturgeon has said her estranged husband Peter Murrell has never explained to her why he embezzled more than £400,000 from the SNP, as she spoke of the "trauma" she has gone through.The former Scottish first minister also said she feels like she is "serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit" after Murrell pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh this week to embezzling the sum from the SNP between 2010 and 2022.

Nicola Sturgeon has said her estranged husband Peter Murrell has never explained to her why he embezzled more than £400,000 from the SNP, as she spoke of the "trauma" she has gone through.The former Scottish first minister also said she feels like she is "serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit" after Murrell pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh this week to embezzling the sum from the SNP between 2010 and 2022.