McShane: Daughter's death and divorce to blame for fiddled expenses!

McShane: Daughter's death and divorce to blame for fiddled expenses!

MPs expenses: former Labour minister faces new expenses investigation

Police investigating the expenses of the former Labour minister Denis MacShane have been handed fresh evidence that he over-claimed thousands of pounds for his second home, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.



"The mistake occurred in the period immediately following my daughter Clare’s death in a sky-diving accident in Australia and in the aftermath of a divorce with all its attendant difficulties of moving homes".