Another One Bites The Dust
Lord Taylor of Warwick today became the first peer - but the second Westminster politician - to be convicted over false expenses claims.
A jury at Southwark crown court found him guilty - of dishonestly claiming £11,277 in allowances.
The Tory peer resigned the whip after the allegations were made - but denied six charges of false accounting between 2006 and 2007.
Lord Taylor was released on unconditional bail - and will now be sentenced at a later date.
Taylor's downfall was that he made false claims - after registering a home in Oxford as his main address.
But his only home was in Ealing - in west London - he never lived or stayed at the Oxford address.
Taylor claimed that many other noble lords were guilty of dodgy practices over their expenses claims - which might well have been true - yet was ultimately no defence to his own dishonest actions.
It's a shame that people's lives are being ruined by their own greed and stupidity.
Sadly the truth is they knew what they were doing all along - and only have themselves to blame - for their sudden fall from grace.
A jury at Southwark crown court found him guilty - of dishonestly claiming £11,277 in allowances.
The Tory peer resigned the whip after the allegations were made - but denied six charges of false accounting between 2006 and 2007.
Lord Taylor was released on unconditional bail - and will now be sentenced at a later date.
Taylor's downfall was that he made false claims - after registering a home in Oxford as his main address.
But his only home was in Ealing - in west London - he never lived or stayed at the Oxford address.
Taylor claimed that many other noble lords were guilty of dodgy practices over their expenses claims - which might well have been true - yet was ultimately no defence to his own dishonest actions.
It's a shame that people's lives are being ruined by their own greed and stupidity.
Sadly the truth is they knew what they were doing all along - and only have themselves to blame - for their sudden fall from grace.
