Montblanc pens to Le Creuset ramekins: police photos show Peter Murrell’s spending habit

Haul found is only a fraction of what the former SNP chief executive bought using embezzled party money

The white police evidence tags on the unused Montblanc pens, picnic sets, Le Creuset ramekins and the chrome Alessi teapot tell a story of a compulsive, often secretive shopaholic.

The £2,400 Smythson two-person tea set, complete in a beige picnic box, was found in a cupboard, unused, as were jewellery boxes and leather-bound writing folders. There were 11 Montblanc pens, with a white gold version worth £4,225, untouched in their gleaming presentation boxes.