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Edinburgh Live
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Nicola Sturgeon reveals her house 'looked like a murder scene' on day of arrest
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info In an interview, Nicola Sturgeon has revealed her house "looked like a murder scene" on the day of Peter Murrell's arrest. In ITV's Nicola Sturgeon: The Interview, the former First Minister of Scotland spoke of her family home being searched by police in 2023. Sturgeon spoke about not having a clear memory of her then husband Peter Murrell being arrested, reports The Record. The arrest came following a police investigation into the spending of more than £600,000 in donations for independence campaigning. Nicola Sturgeon and Murrell had been married since 2010. Sturgeon resigned as first minister and SNP leader in February 2023 and was arrested two months after her husband was first arrested. Former party treasurer Colin Beattie was also arrested the same year. Both Beattie and Sturgeon were later exonerated before Murrell was re-arrested and charged with embezzlement in April 2024. Speaking with ITV News presenter Julie Etchingham, she said: "I genuinely don't know whether the fact that I don't have a clear image of that in my head is because I didn't witness it or that I have kind of somehow blocked it out. "It wasn't till I got to mum and dad's that I saw the pictures of my house looking like a murder scene effectively. "I'm just working out that it's really hard to articulate how I felt that day. "Obviously, the last two years of my life have been torrid. You know, finding myself at the centre of a police investigation under suspicion for a couple of years, all the while, knowing I had done nothing wrong. "The whole, no smoke without fire is a really basic human instinct. We all have it. If somebody's accused of something that we might think, well, that's maybe not true, but there's always a little part of your brain saying, well, no smoke without fire. "So I was just, yeah, just totally shaken to my core. It was really, really dark and really, really difficult. "If you described it to me in advance, I would've said, I, I won't survive that." Sturgeon previously described being arrested and questioned by the police following the arrest of her ex-husband and the Scottish National Party (SNP) treasurer as one of her toughest days. Join Edinburgh Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sentstraight to your messages. She described waking up with her stomach in knots prior to June 11, 2023 - the date she was arrested and questioned. Sturgeon was told she would face no further action over the investigation on March 20, 2025. Elsewhere in the interview, Sturgeon claimed trans rapist Isla Bryson has forfeited the right "to be the gender of their choice" because of their "heinous" crimes. Bryson was jailed in February 2023 after being convicted of raping two women while living as a man named Adam Graham. The rapist was sent to a women's jail after identifying as female - prompting a huge uproar from opposition parties and womens' rights campaigners. They were later moved to a men's wing at HMP Edinburgh. Self-identification was at the heart of the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill, which Sturgeon championed before it was blocked from becoming law by the UK Government in 2023. The row was one of the last acts of Sturgeon's premiership before she announced her intention to resign as first minister.
Daily Record
a day ago
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- Daily Record
Nicola Sturgeon's house 'looked like a murder scene' on day of arrest
Nicola Sturgeon's house 'looked like a murder scene' on day of arrest Scotland's former First Minister Nicola Surgeon has said her home "looked like a murder scene" on day of Peter Murrell's arrest. Nicola Sturgeon said she 'blacked out' (Image: YouTube) Nicola Sturgeon has described her house as "looking like a murder scene" on the day of Peter Murrell's arrest. In ITV's Nicola Sturgeon: The Interview, the former First Minister of Scotland spoke of her family home being searched by police in 2023. Sturgeon spoke about not having a clear memory of her then husband Peter Murrell being arrested. The arrest came following a police investigation into the spending of more than £600,000 in donations for independence campaigning. Nicola Sturgeon, who had been married to Murrell since 2010 and resigned as first minister and SNP leader in February 2023, was arrested two months after her husband was first arrested, while former party treasurer Colin Beattie was also arrested the same year. Both Beattie and Sturgeon were later exonerated before Murrell was re-arrested and charged with embezzlement in April 2024. Scottish Police previously attended Nicola Sturgeon's and Peter Murrell's house (Image: Ross Turpie / Daily Record Sunday Mail Reach PLC) Speaking with ITV News presenter Julie Etchingham, she said: "I genuinely don't know whether the fact that I don't have a clear image of that in my head is because I didn't witness it or that I have kind of somehow blocked it out. "It wasn't till I got to mum and dad's that I saw the pictures of my house looking like a murder scene effectively. "I'm just working out that it's really hard to articulate how I felt that day. "Obviously, the last two years of my life have been torrid. You know, finding myself at the centre of a police investigation under suspicion for a couple of years, all the while, knowing I had done nothing wrong. "The whole, no smoke without fire is a really basic human instinct. We all have it. If somebody's accused of something that we might think, well, that's maybe not true, but there's always a little part of your brain saying, well, no smoke without fire. "So I was just, yeah, just totally shaken to my core. It was really, really dark and really, really difficult. "If you described it to me in advance, I would've said, I, I won't survive that." Nicola Sturgeon has separated from her husband, Peter Murrell (Image: AFP via Getty Images) Sturgeon previously described being arrested and questioned by the police following the arrest of her ex-husband and the Scottish National Party (SNP) treasurer as one of her toughest days. She described waking up with her stomach in knots prior to June 11, 2023 - the date she was arrested and questioned. Sturgeon was told she would face no further action over the investigation on March 20, 2025. Elsewhere in the interview, Sturgeon claimed trans rapist Isla Bryson has forfeited the right "to be the gender of their choice" because of their "heinous" crimes. Bryson was jailed in February 2023 after being convicted of raping two women while living as a man named Adam Graham. The rapist was sent to a women's jail after identifying as female - prompting a huge uproar from opposition parties and womens' rights campaigners. They were later moved to a men's wing at HMP Edinburgh. Article continues below Self-identification was at the heart of the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill, which Sturgeon championed before it was blocked from becoming law by the UK Government in 2023. The row was one of the last acts of Sturgeon's premiership before she announced her intention to resign as first minister.
ITV News
4 days ago
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- ITV News
Nicola Sturgeon opens up about miscarriage, sexuality and 'mental torture' of arrest in new memoir
Nicola Sturgeon has opened up about having a miscarriage, her sexuality, and her arrest in a new book. In an excerpt of her memoir, Frankly, published by The Times, the former first minister of Scotland described being arrested and questioned by the police as "mental torture" and "the worst day" of her life. Ms Sturgeon was arrested in 2023 as part of an investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party. Her husband, Peter Murrell, former chief executive of the SNP, was also arrested and later charged with embezzlement, after his and Ms Sturgeon's home was searched by police looking into what happened to £660,000 of donations to the party. She wrote of an 'overwhelming' sense of relief and release upon being told she would face no further action in March 2025. The former first minister also speaks candidly about her miscarriage in 2010, saying she went to work in January while she was in 'constant agony', including a memorial event for the 40th anniversary of the Ibrox disaster. Ms Sturgeon said she found out she was miscarrying while receiving a flu jab on December 30 of that year, which led to an urgent appointment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary the following day. 'I think I'd known in my heart what the outcome would be, but I was still hoping for the best,' she wrote. 'It seemed that suddenly, belatedly, I wanted to be pregnant after all. The nurse who did the scan was lovely." 'I didn't really know what I was looking for on the screen, but her face told me what I needed to know. The baby was gone.' Another topic addressed in her memoir is of rumours about her 'torrid lesbian affair' in 2020 with Catherine Colonna, who was French ambassador to the UK at the time, and false rumours perpetuated about her issuing a super-injunction to silence the press. She said: 'However, while the fact I was being lied about got under my skin, the nature of the insult itself was water off a duck's back... 'Long-term relationships with men have accounted for more than 30 years of my life, but I have never considered sexuality, my own included, to be binary. Moreover, sexual relationships should be private matters.' Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon will be published on Thursday. Nicola Sturgeon: The Interview, will be shown on ITV1, STV and ITVX on Monday, August 11 at 7pm.
