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Douglas Dalby

Nicola Sturgeon says she was ‘deceived, misled and betrayed’ by Peter Murrell

Former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon during an In Conversation about her book 'Frankly' at the Listowel Writers' Week Literary Festival (Image: Lina Jevdet/PA Wire)

IN her first public appearance since her ex-husband Peter Murrell was convicted on Monday of embezzling £400,000 of SNP funds, former first minister Nicola Sturgeon said she had been "deceived, misled, lied to and betrayed".

“In the last few years, I’ve had some tough weeks but this one I think surpasses all of them,” she said. “You have to come to terms with the fact that you spent many years – I spent many years – many, many years married to somebody that, as it turns out, I obviously didn’t know at all.

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