Lord Taylor of Warwick guilty of fiddling expenses
A former Tory peer was today found guilty of fiddling his expenses to claim more than £11,000 from the public purse. Lord Taylor of Warwick falsely filed for travel and overnight subsistence, a jury at Southwark Crown Court decided by a majority of 11 to one. The 58-year-old told the House of Lords members’ expenses office that his main residence was in Oxford, when he lived in west London. Taylor, whose first name is John, was the first parliamentarian to be tried and found guilty by a jury over the expenses scandal. The jury of seven men and five women took just over five hours to reach their majority verdict that Taylor, of Lynwood Road, Ealing, made £11,277.80-worth of claims on various…
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