The peer and former Essex Council leader Lord Hanningfield has been found guilty of fidding his expenses.
Paul White, 70, had denied six counts of false accounting relating to his parliamentary expenses.
The prosecution said he had claimed for overnight stays in London between March 2006 and April 2009, when he had actually returned home to Essex.
The peer told the court he had seen it as a "living-out-of-London allowance" rather than overnight subsistence.
I don't have too much sympathy, but I think it is unlikely that the jurors were not influenced by the lynch-mob press.
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