Funding, forensics – and a fridge freezer? The investigation into the SNP

Just a few months ago the SNP, with Nicola Sturgeon at the helm, looked almost untouchable. Now a fraud investigation into the party has caused that image to dramatically unravel

It should have been Hamza Yousaf's political honeymoon as first minister. The new leader of the Scottish National party has barely been leading Scotland for a month yet any plans to focus on policy agenda have been thrown into chaos as he firefights questions over a police investigation that has led to the party's former chief executive Peter Murrell and its ex-treasurer Colin Beattie to be arrested.

As part of the fraud investigation into more than 600,000 donated to the party to help them run an independence campaign, an incident tent was set up in the home Nicola Sturgeon shares with her husband, Murrell, and a motor home seized from outside her mother in law's house.