Job Half Done
Posted on
June 23, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Nobody’s beating this tweet today.
But as Peter Murrell begins a five-years-and-three-months prison sentence – more than we were expecting, in truth – let’s not lose sight of the fact that the theft of hundreds of thousands of pounds of independence supporters’ money by the SNP, which accidentally exposed Murrell’s entirely separate crime of theft FROM the SNP, has still not been answered for by anyone.
Be assured, readers, that Wings won’t rest until it is.
Has there been any response from Police Scotland to your second and follow-up letter regarding the new evidence of the fraud perpetrated on members and donors to the SNP referendum campaign ‘ring-fenced’ funds as admitted by John Swinney, SNP leader and First Minister?
The fact that Murrell had cause to conspire against Salmond and lie to the Holyrood inquiry means that evidence needs to be looked at again.
Do the luxury items stolen from SNP accounts belong to the SNP?
If so did they get a six figure sum for the unused mobile home,
another six figure sum from very expensive watches, pens, etc.
Murrell had a six figure sum in his own bank if he could loan that amount to the SNP.
His SNP pension I presume would be both large and forfeited?
The man must have some mental issue if he couldn’t see that he must be caught in the end
and as questions were asked why didn’t he try to sell these things, use his savings and cash in his pension to put most of it if not all of it back.
He could well have justified the mobile home as an election battle bus for elections as most parties already use them.
Like the SNP accounts this just doesn’t add up.
It costs around £1,000 per week to keep a prisoner in Scotland so we are about to pay £273,000 to keep a quite pathetic non violent old man in a cell freed up by early release of a serial criminal.
My best guess is that he was running a version of a Ponzi scheme, where donations would come in and be siphoned off. So as long as supporters were prepared to fund the party, he could enjoy a “credit card” with, essentially, no credit limit. Then “various online blogs” started asking questions, the donations started drying up and his goose was cooked.
There is a whole lot more money missing than what he’s copped to and I don’t just mean the 60,000 not taken into account for the purposes of sentencing. Senior SNP leadership are guilty of, at best, gross incompetence and enormous hubris. They must think we are all stupid. A reckoning will come and those responsible will have to pay a price just like Peter Murrell.
If you look at sentencing guidelines for fraud you will see that the tariff usually goes as the logarithm of the amount stolen – the implication being if you’re gonna steal, you may as well steal a lot. This goes against the “legalisation of shoplifting for roadmen and people of diverse colour, because of the slave trade … ” down in flatland. But you know what I mean. Murrell nicked 20 times what McGarry did, but his sentence was only double.
5 years? – what is that in “real money”. You can get time served, suspended, automatic remission (I doubt he will be shanking other inmates while in there), also the jail and regime – he will be a category C “most harmless”; it might not be that bad, like a travelodge you cannot leave. I don’t think he will be bullied by islamists. Will he be quietly released in 2028?
I am disappointed – the record for 400K is 13 months, and I thought he could do a bit better. But I am sure social media made them all aware of being watched; there is being corrupt, obviously corrupt and being seen to be obviously corrupt – and the latter is the problem.
There was a good piece a couple of days ago showing how the investigators “bent” the entire thing to protect Sturgeon.
When you “take one for the team” you expect to be “looked after”; and I expect “secret squirrel” has a good many nuts, still stashed.
eligible for parole in 2 1/2
turned out nice again
trebles all round
will anyone touch the teflon queen?
I have to admit that I was fairly sure he’d get a light sentence, or even “time served” rather than a custodial one. Maybe he can claim to be a woman and get a transfer to a cushy option?
As for the rest of the money (he admitted to 400k, where is the other 260k?) the Polis seem to be reluctant to pursue this again, given what happened to their evidence that COPFS choose to ignore.
What prize justice in nuSNP Scotland? Apparently £260,000
£660,000
Plus compound interest, as would be expected for any “ring fenced” sum deposited or invested.
I reckon over a million. It’s the fact that no cant seems even aware of what is really missing that I find most puzzling.
It’s just yet more evidence that the Scots are not a serious people.
Mirrors and beads are our comfort zone.
Well spotted Ruglonian. ?
BBC Scotland was repeating Swinney’s stance this morning that spending the referendum fund money on general SNP stuff is okay because the SNP’s raison d’etre is the pursuit of independence. Sturgeon’s obsession with gender identity politics provides a convenient, succinct counterargument to that stance.
Let’s face it, any charity trustees playing so fast and loose with restricted funds would be banned as trustees, and potentially held personally liable for malfeasance.
Can the Electoral Commission not step in?
I’m glad to hear “Murrell’s entirely separate crime of theft FROM the SNP, has still not been answered for by anyone. Be assured, readers, that Wings won’t rest until it is.” thank god someone prepared to when other aren’t.
I donated to two funds as did my wife. For me I gave the money to Scotland yes it was to secure Independence but to steal it and purchase which I would class as junk.
Did the sentencing judge cite “colonised mindset” as a mitigating factor?
What did Fanon predict would happen?
C’moan, Alf, help us out here.
If he keeps his nose clean he can expect to be sprung on…
Monday 8th January, 2029.