This high-profile and scandalous case should be the catalyst for urgent measures to be put in place to give the Scottish Legal Aid Board the powers they need to demand repayment from Peter Murrell.

It is outrageous that someone who has major assets and a huge salary like Peter Murrell has been entitled to legal aid at all.

In the face of unprovoked Russian aggression and in the third year of a war to save his country, Vlodomyr Zelensky has been a symbol of calm strength and determination.