Ex-SNP MP jailed for embezzling almost £25,000 from party and independence group

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Natalie McGarry, who represented Glasgow East from 2015 to 2017, took £19,974 while treasurer of Women for Independence (WFI) and £4,661 in a similar role in an association of her party.

A Sheriff told her: ‘Your standards have fallen well short of those the public has a right to expect of MPs’ Natalie McGarry, who represented Glasgow East from 2015 to 2017, took £19,974 while treasurer of Women for Independence and £4,661 in a similar role in an association of her party.

She also voiced her frustrations at McGarry’s delay in handing over receipts and invoices which would show what the funds had been spent on. At the sentencing on Thursday, defence agent Allan Macleod urged the sheriff to deal with his client as leniently as possible.

 

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You got sturgeons husband Peter and the missing 660k to go yet 😉

She's as feminist as Nicola then 😂

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