It is crucial that families get the answers they deserve.

Questions are piling up about the circumstances surrounding Peter Murrell’s crime spree and with public money potentially misused, John Swinney’s ‘nothing to see here’ act is becoming increasingly untenable.

This is a matter of trust and integrity in politics and public life.

The cheek of a man on his income, with his lifestyle and with a holiday home in Portugal, pleading poverty to exploit a legal aid system his party has hollowed out while in government is not only staggering but is a slap in the face to…

If Peter Murrell is now in a position to pay back legal aid, he should do so.

John Swinney has now admitted that it became part of the SNP’s general resources.

This is a national scandal. Not only has Peter Murrell scammed SNP members, independence supporters, and potentially taxpayers, but now it seems he has scammed the legal aid system.