Peter Murrell jailed 5 years 3 months for embezzling £400k from SNP
Peter Murrell gets his just desserts. 5 years in jail for embezzlement of £400,000. Such odd behaviour when he had money and many of the items were mundane and went unused. The banality coursing through his behaviour adds to the bizarreness of his extreme betrayal of the SNP and its members.
Ruth Watson22Given he had the money to pay for everything, it is not surprising Nicola Sturgeon didn't question the purchases.
Jon Courtenay Grimwood13I do think that if you steal to buy a dozen toasters or whatever you will never use there's more to it than 'merely' theft, although it was certainly that.
Tattie Bogle5It's going to be interesting to observe whether the DUPs Sir Jeffrey Donaldson will get the same exposure as Peter Murrell.
Simon Aldra5There's a bit of British class culture in it as well. He didn't spend it on fixing his moat or the roof on his clock tower.
Brian McRoberts4Psychologists will have field day with him. I use to see him and Nic in a coffee cafe on Lothian Rd back in the day. They used to sit in the same seats by the window looking out. They both looked miserable most days.
The purchase of Salt-N-Pepa grinders was when Peter Murrell really started to push it.
Peter Randall6The more I look at the compulsive nature of the often repeated purchases & concealment from his spouse suggests mental illness. A friend I support is bipolar & has similar behaviours. We may never know & really is none of our business. The whole episode has hurt many people in different ways.
missannibyniaeth.bsky.social3Not even public money. I’d like to see all covid PPE fraudsters go down the same route and made to repay uk by any means - even if unpaid work for rest of life.
Now that Peter Murrell has received a much deserved 63 months in jail for his crimes, I look forward to the Post Office scandal and COVID fraud perpetrators being brought to justice and answering for their crimes, also. Particularly Jack Stare's wife and Michelle Mone and Gove and Hancock.
Tony Carroll4Don't hold your breath, Murrell wasn't about the money, it was politically based to derail NS and independence
Bob White4Yes, I’m also waiting for the NAO and SFO to investigate some of the institutional behaviour surrounding some of the Freeports where £100’s of m’s were handed out to mates. The establishment disgust me with their double standards and their deflecting. Murrell stole yes but so have many others.
Parami2Hope you’re no holding yer breath
Some half-arsed theorising following the jail sentence given to the SNP’s Peter Murrell: I’m a recovering compulsive shopper and gambler, and I see a lot of my own past behaviour in what the judge said today. Murrell, of course, did it turned up to eleven, but…
Alistair Coleman12… the judge’s comment that he couldn’t find an explanation for all the wild purchases, many of which were never used, is exactly compulsive spending behaviour. You just want STUFF, and when you get that stuff, you hide it, sell it, give it away with a semi-plausible explanation.
Neil Grayson4Yep. Thanks for saying this. I am a recovered addict too and it’s exactly what I saw. The salt and pepper shakers: it’s framed as amusing but it’s tragic.
Tbh l'm disappointed that Sky didn't get their helicopter to follow Peter Murrells prison van to milk the 'SNP Bad' line. Unionists slipping up
Shortbreadfairy©️5Notice how the DUP/Orange Order man gets almost a free past in the media and is a convicted child rapist from yesterday. Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of child sexual offences including rape | Northern Ireland | The Guardian share.google/VQ50f4MBeeeX...
Peter2The funny thing about all this is that the Labour melodrama is crushing the yoons opportunity to make political hay.
ppl who undertake shennanigans like Peter Murrell are so lucky Twitter ain't what it used to be. The jokes would have been too much. twitter bought out the best dragging behaviour in all of us. Here, it was 1/2 a day and then we moved on. its not enough
Athena Kugblenu9maybe its the heat but learning he was found out because he bought fancy saucepans absolutely sent me this morning
threadwhisperer.bsky.social2the golden age of Twitter was fueled by collective pettiness at light speed. you'd get a perfect ratio within minutes. bluesky is more like a book club where everyone is thoughtful and nobody brings the wine. we're civilized now. I miss the chaos honestly
