Top ten moments of the SNP police probe

One whole year has passed since the infamous forensic tent was set up outside former first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Glasgow home. On the same day, her husband and former chief executive of the party, Peter Murrell, was arrested in connection with the police probe into the ‘missing’ £600,000 of donations the party received for its IndyRef2 campaign. The police investigation, Operation Branchform, has been ongoing for three years and The Spectator has documented every twist and turn.

Peter Murrell, former SNP CEO, is arrested

A year ago today, the former chief executive of the SNP and Sturgeon’s husband, was arrested at 7.45am and taken into police custody. Murrell was questioned in relation to the police probe for almost 12 hours before being released, pending further investigation. The infamous forensic police tent was erected outside Sturgeon’s Glasgow home while police simultaneously raided the SNP’s headquarters in Edinburgh. A media frenzy ensued, and some London-based journalists got a little overexcited, mistakenly reporting that the police were, um, digging up Sturgeon’s garden.