Luxury watches, iPads and a Jaguar: what Peter Murrell bought with embezzled funds

Former SNP chief also blew chunks of the stolen £400,310 on posh coffee machines and a robotic lawnmower Peter Murrell pleads guilty to embezzling £400,000 The list of luxury items bought by Peter Murrell using the £400,310 he stole from the Scottish National party runs to about 100 pages, and reads like a Harrods mail order catalogue. As well as luxury cars and watches there are items at the other end of the scale: curry sauce, glue and a corkscrew. Stuart Houston, the assistant chief constable in charge of Police Scotland’s investigation, said Murrell had “abused his privileged position with access to Scottish National party funds to divert cash into his own accounts and bankroll the lavish lifestyle he craved but could not afford”. Murrell bought a luxury SUV – a Jaguar iPace – for £81,000, subsided with £57,500 stolen from the SNP money, which he later sold for £47,378, pocketing the proceeds. There was also a £124,550 Niesmann+Bischoff motorhome, which he parked on his mother’s driveway, and for which he created fake invoices. He used a further £16,489 of SNP money to part-fund the purchase of a £32,989 Volkswagen Golf. Murrell also spent on high-end pens and watches: £9,350 o