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A tip led journalists to a 92-year-old woman’s home, where police seized a luxury German motorhome—worth £110K and parked for two years—belonging to Peter Murrell, former SNP chief executive and husband of Nicola Sturgeon. Initially mistaken for a raid on the elderly woman, the discovery became a media sensation, symbolizing the missing SNP funds scandal. The van, impossible to miss from the driveway, fueled memes, parodies, and public debate. Even after Murrell’s guilty plea, Sturgeon claimed ignorance, but a student testified seeing her mention the family home—and the van—just months later. This bizarre case, born from a single phone call, remains a defining moment in Scottish politics, exposing the power of investigative journalism and casting a long shadow over the SNP leadership.

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