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Peter Murrell arrived at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday inside a prison van. The vehicle was a far cry from the £124,000 motorhome which helped get him into this embezzlement mess. It marked a total fall from grace for the man who had once been half of Scotland’s most influential power couple.

The former Scottish National Party (SNP) supremo, and Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband, oversaw the party’s rocketing rise in popularity and a large influx of new members around the 2014 independence referendum. But it was the fees and donations paid by those very members, along with other donors and legacies, that made up the bulk of the £400,000 Murrell last month admitted embezzling over a 12-year period.