Peter Murrell visited Shetland Jewellery in July 2019 and purchased a 425 gold pendant inspired by the Northern Lights for his then-wife Nicola Sturgeon. The jeweller said Murrell told him, while Sturgeon was in the workshop area, that he was the man with the money and needed to buy something. The jeweller said Sturgeon wore the pendant frequently in public appearances. Murrell later pleaded guilty to embezzling 400,310.65 from the Scottish National Party between August 2010 and October 2022, and the pendant is among the admitted purchases. Sturgeon said she had no knowledge or suspicion that personal items were bought using SNP funds and that she and Murrell had separate bank accounts.
"They came in and then Peter Murrell said, while his wife was in the workshop area, I'm the man with the money. I need to buy something'. We were happy he wanted to buy something. He added: Nicola did wear that pendant quite often and you can see it on television and we're very popular of the fact that she was wearing a bit of Shetland Jewellery."
"Mr Rae said that, a few years later, two police officers came up from Glasgow to interview people in the workshop as part of their investigation. He said: We were surprised to hear that two policemen were coming up to Shetland to interview us specially about our sale of a gold pendant to Peter Murrell."
"Ms Sturgeon has said she had no knowledge or suspicion whatsoever that personal items had been purchased using SNP funds. In a statement released through her lawyer, Aamer Anwar, Ms Sturgeon said that she and Murrell had separate bank accounts and"
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