Montblanc pens to Le Creuset ramekins: police photos show Peter Murrell’s spending habit

Haul is only a fraction of what the former SNP chief executive bought using embezzled party money Peter Murrell jailed for five years after embezzling £400,000 from SNP The white police evidence tags on the unused Montblanc pens, picnic sets, Le Creuset ramekins and the chrome Alessi teapot tell a story of a compulsive, often secretive shopaholic. The £2,400 Smythson two-person tea set, complete in a beige picnic box, was found in a cupboard, unused, as were jewellery boxes and leather-bound writing folders. There were 11 Montblanc pens, with a white gold version worth £4,225, untouched in the

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