Sources and method

Sources

• The court record. The sentencing statement in HMA v Peter Murrell, published by the Judiciary of Scotland, 23 June 2026. This is the source for everything said about the offence, the plea and the sentence.
• The itemised spending list. Compiled and published byThe Scottish Sun alongside its reporting of the case, under the heading "Peter Murrell: The spend in full". The list of items, dates, retailers and amounts on this site comes from that published table. Credit for assembling it belongs to that publication.

What was done to the data

The published table has 630 rows. Three are blank spacers, leaving627 real purchases totalling £400,279.34. That total is unchanged from the source and every figure on this site still adds up to it.

Many rows describe several things at once, with prices run together in one long string. A single row might list six items across one order. Those rows were split apart, which is why 627 purchases become1,048 items. 634 of those items came out of a shared row.

Where a purchase covered several items, the purchase total is apportioned across them in proportion to the individual prices given in the record. This matters because some prices in the source are quoted excluding tax while the purchase total includes it. Apportioning keeps the arithmetic honest at the level that counts, which is the overall total. It does mean an individual price here can differ by a few pence from the figure printed in the source. Each item page shows the original wording so you can see exactly what was done.

What we added

Categories are ours, not the court's and not the newspaper's. They were assigned by matching product names against keyword rules and then checked by hand. They are a convenience for browsing and nothing more. Some items could sit in two categories and a few judgement calls will be arguable. If one looks wrong, it probably is, and it will be corrected.

Known limits

• Dates vary in precision. Most entries carry a full date, but66 give only a year and one gives only a month. Those are shown exactly as the record has them rather than being guessed at.
• Retailers are often missing. 591 items have no retailer in the source. They are shown as not stated. No attempt was made to infer one.
• Two purchases were recorded in euros. These are flagged on the item page. The sterling purchase total is used for the arithmetic.
• Quantities are as described. Where the record says "2 x" something, that is captured, but the price shown is for the line as recorded, not per unit.
• The illustrations are drawings, not evidence. This site holds no photographs of the actual goods. Every image was drawn for this site in the style of a courtroom sketch. They represent the kind of object described in the record, not the specific item that was bought, and details such as colour, model and markings will often be wrong. Where no drawing exists for an item, the drawing for its category is shown instead. None of them should be treated as a depiction of real evidence.

Money

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