You were a role model and MP then betrayed trust placed in you by others

McGarry gets two years for embezzling £24k from Nats

- CONNOR GORDON

SHAMED former MP Natalie McGarry was yesterday jailed for two years after pinching more than £24,600 from two pro-independence groups.

The one-time SNP rising star was trusted as treasurer of Women for Independence (WFI) and her party's Glasow Regional Association (GRA).

But while they helped fulfil her dream of becoming an MP, she betrayed them by blowing the money on rent, takeaways, groceries and a holiday to Spain.

At the same time, McGarry, 41, was borrowing cash from friends including SNP Health Secretary Humza Yousaf and complained of being "skint" despite her £67,000 salary.

Sheriff Tom Hughes told the mum of one: "You were a role model for aspiring politicians and you became an MP.

"By your involvement in these offences, you have not only betrayed the trust placed in you by others but your standards have fallen well short of what the public have the right to expect from politicians and MPs."