Disgraced former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell arrived at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday inside a prison van, marking a total fall from grace for the man who had once been half of Scotland’s most influential power couple.
As the SNP’s long-standing chief executive – and husband of Nicola Sturgeon – Murrell oversaw the party’s rocketing rise in popularity and a large influx of new members around the 2014 independence referendum.
