New statement from lawyer representing Nicola Sturgeon.
Aamer Anwar says: “To make it abundantly clear it was not the role of the First Minister to sign off accounts, that was for the party treasurer.
“Furthermore, there appears to be an assumption that as FM, when Mr Murrell was busy buying multiple pens or pepper pots etc she was with him, Ms Sturgeon was not, as unsurprisingly she was busy with other matters.”
Now the catalogue of crimes has been published, it reveals astonishing detail after detail about what Peter Murrell was buying with £400k of embezzled money.
The man who first filed the police complaint that led to Operation Branchform now wants full refunds and an inquiry.