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Monday, May 16, 2011

Tory peer Lord Hanningfield to face trial over expenses

Tory peer Lord Hanningfield to face trial over expenses

A Conservative peer is due to go on trial accused of fiddling his parliamentary expenses.

BBC News Politics 16 May 2011 Last updated at 09:05

Lord Hanningfield has said he made the claims in good faith

Lord Hanningfield, 70, faces six charges of false accounting between March 2006 and May 2009.

He is accused of claiming overnight allowances for London accommodation when records allegedly show he was driven home to Chelmsford, Essex.

The former leader of Essex County Council will appear before Chelmsford Crown Court under his name Paul White.

Lord Hanningfield was charged in February last year.

He was suspended from the Parliamentary Conservative Party and stood down as a frontbench business spokesman in the House of Lords and as leader of Essex County Council.

He said at the time that the accommodation claims had been made in good faith.
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John Hirst Hull, East Yorkshire, GB "Who is John Hirst?" the Sun online questioned the day after the UK lost its appeal to the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR in the prisoners votes case. The profile was not very informative nor flattering. But, I don't like the Sun either so we are quits. I was born, at 2 I was put into Dr Barnardo's Homes. What they called care, we refer to it as physical and sexual abuse. I drifted into crime, and spent 35 years in prison. In spite of the system, I reformed and rehabilitated myself with the support of some within and outside of the system. I was transformed from a law breaker into a law-maker. I am firmly committed to prisoners rights, and am a campaigner for penal reform. I live in a 3 bedroom terrace house within a cul-de-sac, and have a dog as a companion. My Latvian friend keeps invading my space and telling me I need a wife. She does keep the house clean and tidy, but loves my dog and calls him her boyfriend... Recently, Viking FM have asked for advice and reports for the news on radio on Criminal Justice issues. In addition, I used to write regularly for Inside Time the National newspaper for prisoners.
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