The former first minister announced she would be divorcing her husband of 14 years and said the couple had been separated "for some time".

Former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon and former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell have “decided to end” their marriage, she said in a post on social media. Last April Mr Murrell was charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the Scottish National Party.

The former Scottish first minister had been married to Mr Murrell, the former chief executive of the SNP, since 2010.

The former first minister says she and her husband, the ex-SNP chief executive, have been separated for "some time".

Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says John Swinney has to learn lessons from the mistakes of the Sturgeon and Salmond years.

Former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon ends marriage to Peter Murrell - Writing on social media, she said the decision had been made ‘with a heavy heart’.

Scotland's former leader Nicola Sturgeon announced on Monday she and her husband Peter Murrell had decided to end their marriage, almost two years after they were both questioned as part of a police probe into the fate of party funds.

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