Former SNP MP Natalie McGarry (Image: Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)
Natalie McGarry faced three charges of embezzlement and a charge that she refused to give police the passcode for a mobile phone they had seized. The 37-year-old, who had represented Glasgow East but did not seek re-election in 2017, admitted two of the charges when she appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday. The Crown accepted not guilty pleas to the other two.
McGarry, who represented herself in court, embezzled £21,000 from Women for Independence when she was its treasurer.
She transferred money raised through fundraising events into her personal bank accounts and failed to transfer charitable donations to Perth and Kinross foodbank and to Positive Prison, Positive Future between April 26, 2013 and November 30, 2015.
She also used cheques drawn on the Women for Independence bank account to deposit money into her own account. McGarry also admitted embezzling £4,661.02 while she was treasurer, secretary and convener of the Glasgow Regional Association of the SNP between April 2014 and August 2015. McGarry was elected as an SNP member in 2015 but she resigned the party whip following the
