Tory peer jailed for nine months after expenses scandal
Published:
3:02 PM July 1, 2011
Updated:
6:44 PM November 1, 2020
A DISGRACED former Tory peer and ex-Essex County Council leader has been jailed today.
A DISGRACED former Tory peer and ex-Essex County Council leader has been jailed today for nine months for fiddling his parliamentary expenses.
Lord Hanningfield, 70, falsely claimed for nearly �14,000 for overnight stays in London when he was not in the capital.
His expenses-fiddling included one occasion in February 2008 when he was actually on board a flight to India.
In May he was found guilty of six counts of false accounting at Chelmsford Crown Court and was sentenced today at Maidstone Crown Court.
