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Nicola Sturgeon says police investigation was 'mental torture' - in memoir that addresses sexuality and miscarriage
Nicola Sturgeon has opened up about the "mental torture" of being investigated by police in her new book.
Frankly, which will be published on Thursday, also details her miscarriage in 2010 and rumours about an affair with a female French ambassador to the UK. In an excerpt published in The Times, Ms Sturgeon, 55, describes 11 June 2023 - the day she was arrested and questioned by police - as the "worst of my life".
The former first minister was investigated after her ex-husband Peter Murrell, the former chief executive and treasurer of the Scottish National Party (SNP), was arrested and charged with embezzlement. The couple's house was searched as the police probed £660,000 that had gone missing from party accounts, but the investigation into Ms Sturgeon and her colleague Colin Beatie was eventually dropped.
Read more from Sky News:JD Vance on UK free speechHomelessness minister resigns over rent claimsInside Jeremy Corbyn's new party Having gone to the north east of Scotland to stay with a friend during that time, she recalls: "I spent hours looking out across the North Sea. At first, I wanted to somehow disappear into its vastness.
Slowly but surely, though, the sea calmed me." The following year was filled with "dread and anxiety.
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