Severin Carrell

The police say that he went to extraordinary lengths to give himself the space to steal all this money, but also to cover it up.

So, Annie, what we had in court yesterday was what they call a narrative description from the prosecution about the specifics of Peter Murrell's offences, exactly how he'd covered things up, the way he had lied to people, and also when he had bought things and even where they were posted to.

The most, in a sense, entertaining fact was that the most famous offender

of his purchases, the £124,000 luxury motorhome, was driven a total of four miles.

He drove it from the place he picked it up at to his mother's home in Dunfermline, a whole total of four miles, and then left it parked next to her house for more than two years.

It never left there.

How bizarre.

It's quite odd.

And the thing which is also very revealing about it is that the information that we had from the prosecution was that while it was sitting there, he did actually stock it up with a whole number of luxury items.

He bought Joseph and Joseph and Le Creuset kitchen and homeware.

He bought molten and brown toiletries, which you can see in the police photographs are very neatly arranged around the hand basin in the motorhome.

Nicola Sturgeon herself is adamant that she didn't know that the motorhome existed.

Well, if you go to... She didn't know he'd bought it.

The party didn't know he'd bought it.

And it was pretty clear that he never actually used it.

One wonders what was going through his mind.

But it is an interesting insight into how secretive he was, how acquisitive he was, and also how attracted he was to luxury items.

He just obviously clearly loved having luxury all around him.

What the additional details may actually suggest is that Murrell was quite careful to avoid Nicola Sturgeon being aware of what he was doing.

Because the prosecution detailed how very often he sent his illicit goods, these luxury items he'd been buying using the stolen money from the SNP, he'd had them delivered at the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh.