Sturgeon’s husband bought 108 loo rolls | Politics | News
Murrell, who was chief executive of the SNP from 2001 to 2023, spent the money on items such as a caravan, cars, kitchen appliances, expensive watches and pens. More mundane purchases included hand cream and toilet seats. Court documents show Murrell, 61, spent £55.98 on 108 Andrex toilet rolls on March 7, 2020, according to reports.
The purchases come as supermarkets face shortages of some key products and 48 hours before Ms Sturgeon told a press conference the public should “act as rationally as possible” and avoid bulk buying. Daily Mail.
In the following weeks, Murrell reportedly also purchased 144 bottles of Evian still mineral water and four packs of liquid laundry detergent.
Rachael Hamilton, deputy leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, told the Mail: “Peter Murrell’s toilet paper splurge shows he was aware of Nicola Sturgeon’s warning against panic buying, but it is also typical of the SNP’s ‘do as I say, not as I do’ double standards.”
Scottish Labor deputy leader Jackie Baillie also told the paper: “The hypocrisy is breathtaking. Each new revelation shines a harsher light on the culture that has developed under the leadership of Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney and raises new questions about who knew what and when.”
Ms Sturgeon said Murrell, from whom she split in 2025, “lied and betrayed me”.
In an interview on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, she said: “Am I angry at him? Yes, I am, but I’m also resentful to a degree and I think I carry a degree of trauma – this whole incident resulted in me sitting in remand in a police station.”
“I think it’s going to take a long, long time to get over what he did to me.”
Referring to some of Murrell’s purchases, Ms Sturgeon said that as First Minister she worked 24 hours a day most days and had little to do with running the household.
He said: “To explain how our finances worked, we had separate bank accounts, I never had access to his bank account and he didn’t have mine. Every month, I gave him some money to cover my share of the household expenses and left him to deal with it.”
Ms Sturgeon, who was Scotland’s first minister from 2014 to 2023, also said: “I had absolutely no knowledge of his offending.”
Murrell was taken into custody and is expected to be sentenced this month.
