A motorhome, a £3k robotic lawnmower and a silver wine coaster are just some of the items former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell bought using money he embezzled from the party, along with a Jaguar, a £1,200 space telescope and designer salt and pepper shakers costing more than £2,000.
He also bought three designer manicure sets for nearly £294, two toilet seats, a coffee machine for nearly £3,232 and a book of speeches by his now estranged wife, Nicola Sturgeon.
Murrell has pleaded guilty to embezzling over £400,000 from the party, an amended charge that reduced the amount of the embezzled money from more than £459,000.
A 126-page indictment details hundreds of items that Murrell bought using the embezzled funds while photos released by the Crown Office, Scotland’s public prosecution service, showing the motorhome and other items.
List of some of the items bought with the embezzled money
- Niesmann+Bischoff motorhome (£124,550).
- Volkswagen Golf (£32,989, for which he used £16,489 of SNP money).
- Naguar iPace (£81,000, for which he used £57,500 of SNP money).
- Celestron 10169 NexStar 8SE computerised Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (£1,199). He also bought a number of accessories for the device on the same day.
- The Killing seasons 1-3 on DVD (£60). The list also includes purchases of DVDs of Borgen, The Government and Sherlock Holmes.
- Grand Theft Auto V for Playstation 4 (£42.99). Other gaming-related purchases on the list include Fifa 2014, Battlefield 4, and a Playstation 3 console.
- Silver wine coaster worth £3,500
- Three Wusthof manicure sets (£293.70).
- Joseph Joseph bread bin (£60).
- Netatmo rain gauge for a Netatmo weather station plus mounts for rain and wind gauges (£78.99).
- The Beatles special edition fountain pen and rollerball (£1,475).
- 1:30 scale model helicopter from Let’s Shop Airbus of Airbus Operations Limited (£550.59).
- Two pairs of Fit Nation Socks (£11.95).
- Victorinox bike tool kit (£22.41).
- Two Freskaro carabiner clips and a 2win2buy rock climbing carabiner outdoor sports tool (£40.49).
- Oxo Good Grips egg poacher set (£23.98).
- The board game Monopoly (£19.79).
- The book Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Selected Speeches of Nicola Sturgeon (£22.04).
- Two Fisher bullet space pens in gift boxes and two Fischer Eclipse American technology space pens (£89.25).
- Two pairs of Gold Leaf gents dry touch gloves and six bottles of Avon Skin So Soft body spray (£58.73).
- Luxury handmade 90th birthday card (£5.85).
- Jura Giga 5 Cromo coffee machine (£3,231.90).
- Two Smedbo Sideline design soap baskets (£116).
- Oak library ladder (£943).
- Jamie Oliver Acacia wooden spoon set (£14.88).
- Four Simple Human kitchen cupboard cabinet organisers (£196.08).
- Two Helly Hansen men’s vests (£140.49).
- Le Creuset wine bottle cooler sleeve, foil remover, and champagne and sparkling wine bottle opener (£57).
- Three Take the Slow Road books, covering Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland (£42.45).
- 2017 United Kingdom silver proof coin set from the Royal Mint (£625).
- 600g pack of Chocolossus biscuits (£17.95).
- Two Ideal Standard toilet seats (£68.82).
- Fortnum & Mason musical advent calendar (£150).
- Two Addis washing-up bowls (£10.98).
- Folio Society edition of Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy (£307.50).
- Two Feuilles pepper and salt grinders (£2,618.16).
- George Foreman Flexe 26250 electric grill (£49.99).
- Three Jacobi Jane bird feeders (£154.97).
- Eight umbrellas (£1,990.50).
