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SNP writes off value of Peter Murrell's motorhome but still owes him £60k
Legal aid chiefs expect further payments as solicitors have not yet billed the case and confiscation proceedings could keep costs rising into next year.
- The SNP published annual accounts on Thursday, reporting a £509,903 surplus for 2025 while removing former chief executive Peter Murrell's £100,000 motorhome from its balance sheet following his embezzlement conviction.
- Murrell, sentenced to five years and three months after embezzling over £400,000 from the party, prompted the SNP to write off the seized vehicle and triggered wider financial reckoning within the organization.
- Counsel representing Murrell have received £4,831 in legal aid to date, but Scottish Legal Aid Board officials confirmed this represents only the "tip of the iceberg" for mounting public costs.
- Scottish Conservative justice spokesman Stephen Kerr condemned the rising bill as an "obscene misuse of public money," demanding ministers reform the legal aid system that has "completely lost the confidence of the public."
- A proceeds of crime hearing scheduled for September will determine recovery efforts, while the party remains uncertain whether it must repay £60,000 to Murrell, whom he has not "formally requested" back.
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