Peter Murrell embezzled, on average, more than £90 a day of SNP funds every day for 12 years before he was stopped.
The former SNP chief executive and now estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon admitted earlier this month to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party following a spending spree spanning more than a decade.
He admitted in court to spending an average of £90.78 of SNP money every day over a 12-year period.
Last week The Sunday Mail revealed how he bought 108 toilet rolls just hours before then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the public against panic buying during the Covid pandemic.
View 3 ImagesPeter Murrell(Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)
The purchase was however removed from the final charge sheet by prosecutors.
Murrell ,61, pleaded guilty to embezzlement between August 2010 and October 2022 after a police probe found he had spent thousands of pounds of SNP funds on luxury goods, including cars, cosmetics and household items.
Murrell also splashed out on big-ticket items including a £124,550 motorhome, a Jaguar I-PACE worth around £57,000, and made a direct transfer of £16,498 from the party’s account towards the purchase of a £33,000 Volkswagen Golf in early 2016.
View 3 ImagesProsecutors removed the purchase of 1,226 toilet rolls from the list.(Image: Getty Images)
Murrell’s embezzlement began with the purchase of two Alibaba laundry baskets from Amazon in August 2010 — just one month after his wedding to Nicola Sturgeon — and continued even after concerns had been raised about SNP accounts.
An astonishing 125 pages detailing purchases allegedly made with party funds have been published.
The original list contained 1,344 items and included a fountain pen costing £4,225, a £1,946 payment to Neville Johnson Ltd towards a fitted library, and a £943 oak library ladder.
Prosecutors later removed allegations relating to more than 1,000 toilet rolls, cosmetics purchases including £886 worth of Estée Lauder foundation, nine makeup organisers costing £116, a Dyson hairdryer worth around £300, and toothbrush purchases totalling £846.47 between July 2016 and May 2022.
Court documents show Murrell was initially accused of using SNP funds to buy 108 luxury Andrex toilet rolls on March 7 2020 at a cost of £55.98.
View 3 ImagesThe infamous motorhome seized by police.(Image: Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service)
Just 48 hours later, Sturgeon appeared at a press conference urging Scots not to panic buy and to “apply common sense” amid supermarket shortages as the pandemic loomed.
The documents alleged Murrell doubled his purchases of packs of 54 toilet rolls to 108 rolls — as Sturgeon warned the public.
He also went on to buy 16 shower bottles of spray, 144 bottles of Evian still mineral water and four packs of liquid laundry detergent in the weeks after.
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In December that year, Sturgeon appeared on TV during a Covid briefing where she again warned shoppers there was “no need” for panic buying amid food-shortage fears in the run-up to Christmas.