Is Nicola Sturgeon a victim in £400,000 embezzlement case? // TRAIN BRAIN

Is Nicola Sturgeon a victim in £400,000 embezzlement case?

Channel 4 News' Scotland Correspondent Kathryn Samson asks Scotland's First Minister John Swinney whether he thinks Nicola Sturgeon was misled by her estranged husband, Peter Murrell, who embezzled more than £400,000 from the SNP.
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Murrell pleaded guilty in High Court to embezzlement between August 2010 and October 2022.
In a statement today, the former SNP leader says her former husband "deceived" her and that she's "angry, hurt sad and very distressed."
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