SNP probe cops seize motorhome

Vehicle worth £110k taken by officers from the house of Murrell's mother

- ANDREW QUINN

A LUXURY campervan has reportedly been seized at Nicola Sturgeon's mother-in-law's house by police investigating the SNP's finances.

A Niesmann + Bischoff motorhome was taken from a house in Fife at the same time police searched Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home.

The same model of campervan can sell for about £110,000.

A Sunday newspaper reported the state-of-the-art vehicle was taken from Murrell's 92-year-old mother Margaret's house in Dunfermline.

Former SNP chief executive Murrell was arrested on Wednesday by police probing the spending of around £600,000 which was earmarked for an independence campaign.

He was released later that day pending further investigation.

Police Scotland officers searched Murrell and Sturgeon's home near Glasgow as well as the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh.

The ongoing investigation has been described by SNP president Mike Russell as the party's biggest crisis in 50 years.

Scottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy called for senior party figures to "come clean" about the party's finances.

He said: "The investigation into the SNP's murky finances grows more surreal by the day.

The sight of a luxury motorhome being seized would be almost comic, were the issue not so serious.