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Nicola Sturgeon says police investigation was ‘psychological torture’ – in memoir that addresses sexuality and miscarriage

By Editorial Board Published August 9, 2025 4 Min Read
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Nicola Sturgeon says police investigation was ‘psychological torture’ – in memoir that addresses sexuality and miscarriage

Nicola Sturgeon has opened up concerning the “mental torture” of being investigated by police in her new ebook.

Frankly, which might be revealed on Thursday, additionally particulars her miscarriage in 2010 and rumours about an affair with a feminine French ambassador to the UK.

In an excerpt revealed in The Occasions, Ms Sturgeon, 55, describes 11 June 2023 – the day she was arrested and questioned by police – because the “worst of my life”.

The previous first minister was investigated after her ex-husband Peter Murrell, the previous chief govt and treasurer of the Scottish Nationwide Occasion (SNP), was arrested and charged with embezzlement.

The couple’s home was searched because the police probed £660,000 that had gone lacking from get together accounts, however the investigation into Ms Sturgeon and her colleague Colin Beatie was ultimately dropped.

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Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell. Pic Reuters

Having gone to the north east of Scotland to stick with a buddy throughout that point, she recollects: “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 next yr was crammed with “dread and anxiety”, she says, with no updates on the case, till Mr Murrell was re-arrested and charged in April 2024.

“I retain both faith in and respect for our country’s criminal justice system. However, none of that changes this fact: being the subject of a high-profile criminal investigation for almost two years, especially having committed no crime, was like a form of mental torture,” she says.

She was instructed she would face no additional motion on 20 March 2025 – a month after she and Mr Murrell introduced their separation.

Nicola Sturgeon announcing the end of her marriage on Instagram

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Nicola Sturgeon asserting the tip of her marriage on Instagram

Went to work regardless of miscarriage ‘agony’

The memoir additionally particulars a miscarriage she suffered in 2010. She returned again to work straight after, having to attend a memorial occasion regardless of being in “constant agony”.

She says she felt “conflicted” about turning into a father or mother – however solely realised “belatedly” that she “wanted to be pregnant” when she was in hospital having an pressing scan after telling a flu jab nurse she had observed spots of blood.

The lack of the being pregnant was confirmed 4 days afterward 4 January 2011.

“I had the presence of mind to call Peter into the bathroom and, together, we flushed our ‘baby’ down the toilet. We later resolved to try again, but I knew then that we had lost our one chance,” she recollects.

Nicola Sturgeon at Pride Glasgow in May. Pic: PA

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Nicola Sturgeon at Delight Glasgow in Could. Pic: PA

Ms Sturgeon, who served as first minister between 2014 and 2023, additionally addressed false rumours that she had a lesbian affair with former French ambassador to the UK Catherine Colonna in 2020.

Whereas the lies “got under her skin”, she provides: “Long-term relationships with men have accounted for more than 30 years of my life, but I have never considered sexuality, my own included, to be binary. Moreover, sexual relationships should be private matters.”

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