Up to courts to decide if Sturgeon has to give back Murrell gifts, Swinney says

Nicola Sturgeon has said she feels like she is ‘serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit’ (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

John Swinney has said it is for the courts to decide whether Nicola Sturgeon should be forced to give back gifts bought for her by Peter Murrell using embezzled SNP cash.

The First Minister also said he had no knowledge of Murrell and his family reportedly selling their Portuguese villa before the former SNP chief executive claimed legal aid during his embezzlement case.