Six face prosecution over MP’s expenses
SIX MPs and peers could be prosecuted for alleged fraud over their expenses claims.
Scotland Yard detectives have passed four files to prosecutors so they can decide whether the four will face criminal charges. A further two files are expected to follow within weeks.
The files concern Labour MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine and peers Baroness Uddin, Lord Hanningfield and Lord Clarke of Hampstead.
Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is expected to decide before next year’s general election whether to prosecute the politicians.
It is unlikely that any trial would start before 2011. All of the MPs and peers deny criminal wrongdoing.