{"id":690176,"date":"2026-07-13T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690176\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:57:11","slug":"nicola-sturgeons-police-statement-on-snp-finances-wont-be-released-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690176\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Sturgeon’s police statement on SNP finances won’t be released – lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The written statement Nicola Sturgeon gave to police investigating the SNP’s finances will not be released, her lawyer has said.<\/p>\n

Aamer Anwar, who is representing the former first minister, said that neither her written statement nor the police interview she took part in would be released.<\/p>\n

After her arrest in 2023, Sturgeon exercised her right to give a “no comment” police interview, later sending a written statement to officers.<\/p>\n

The interview was part of Operation Branchform, which ultimately led to Sturgeon’s former husband Peter Murrell being convicted of embezzling more than \u00a3400,000<\/a> from the SNP during his time as chief executive. Murrell was jailed for five years and three months in June.<\/p>\n

Sturgeon has said she is innocent of any wrongdoing and that she was “deceived, misled and betrayed” by Murrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The written statement Nicola Sturgeon gave to police investigating the SNP’s finances will not be released, her lawyer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}