Tuesday 31 May 2011

Jailed peer faces Lords suspension (From Oxford Mail)

Jailed peer faces Lords suspension (From Oxford Mail)

A disgraced former Tory peer faces being suspended from the House of Lords after being jailed for 12 months for expenses fraud.

Lord Taylor of Warwick, 58, lied under oath during his trial in an attempt to cover up fraudulent claims of more than �11,000 in taxpayers' money, Southwark Crown Court heard.

He told the House of Lords members' expenses office that his main residence was a house in Oxford when he lived in west London.

The peer never stayed in, and only twice visited, the Oxford property ...

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