A motorhome, a £3k coffee machine and a book of Sturgeon speeches: What Peter Murrell bought with embezzled SNP funds

A motorhome, a £3k coffee machine and a book of Sturgeon speeches: What Peter Murrell bought with embezzled SNP funds The disgraced political figure spent more than £2,000 on designer salt and pepper shakers - Bookmark A Jaguar, a £1,200 space telescope, and designer salt and pepper shakers costing more than £2,000 are just some of the items former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell bought using money he embezzled from the party. He also bought three designer manicure sets for nearly £294, two toilet seats, and a coffee machine for nearly £3,232. Murrell also purchased a book of speeches by his estranged wife, Nicola Sturgeon. Murrell pleaded guilty to embezzling over £400,000 from the party during a High Court appearance in Edinburgh on Monday morning. The amended charge 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. List of some of the items bought with the embezzled money - Jaguar iPace (£81,000, for which he used £57,500 of SNP money). - Volkswagen Golf (£32,989, for which he used £16,489 of SNP money). - Niesmann+Bischoff motorhome (£124,550). - 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. - 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).