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Nicola Sturgeon has opened up about the “mental torture” of being investigated by police in her new book.
Frankly, which will be published on Thursday, also details her miscarriage in 2010 and rumours about an affair with a female French ambassador to the UK.
In an excerpt published in The Times, Ms Sturgeon, 55, describes 11 June 2023 – the day she was arrested and questioned by police – as the “worst of my life”.
The former first minister was investigated after her ex-husband Peter Murrell, the former chief executive and treasurer of the Scottish National Party (SNP), was arrested and charged with embezzlement.
The couple’s house was searched as the police probed £660,000 that had gone missing from party accounts, but the investigation into Ms Sturgeon and her colleague Colin Beatie was eventually dropped.
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Having gone to the north east of Scotland to stay with a friend during that time, she recalls: “I spent hours looking out across the North Sea. At first, I wanted to somehow disappear into its vastness. Slowly but surely, though, the sea calmed me.”
The following year was filled with “dread and anxiety”, she says, with no updates on the case, until Mr Murrell was re-arrested and charged in April 2024.
“I retain both faith in and respect for our country’s criminal justice system. However, none of that changes this fact: being the subject of a high-profile criminal investigation for almost two years, especially having committed no crime, was like a form of mental torture,” she says.
She was told she would face no further action on 20 March 2025 – a month after she and Mr Murrell announced their separation.
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