Nicola Sturgeon’s husband arrested as police search home and SNP HQ in finances probe

Officers are also at the SNP’s HQ offices in Edinburgh, with police vans seen parked outside and uniformed officers standing inside the building.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon with her husband Peter Murrell. File picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell has been arrested in a police investigation into the SNP’s finances with their home and party’s headquarters being searched.

The former chief executive of the party has been taken into custody and was questioned by detectives as police searched their house in Glasgow on Wednesday morning.