MPs expenses: three Labour MPs deny fraud charges

204PM GMT eleven Mar 2010

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The MPs, Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, face charges of burglary by fake accounting.

Appearing in the wharf prior to City of Westminster Magistrates" Court they told District Judge Timothy Workman they denied any wrongdoing.

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Their prosecution, at a justice a short area from Parliament, is the initial to outcome from the Westminster losses scandal.

All 3 MPs were expelled on umbrella bail and systematic to crop up at Southwark Crown Court on Mar 30.

District Judge Workman declined office and concluded with an focus by the counterclaim for the box to be listened at the Crown Court.

Mr Knowles pronounced the box lifted issues of inherent significance and it was right that it should be tested at the higher court.

The 3 politicians collected in a conference room after the conference to verbalise to their authorised team.

Ahead of the justice coming new sum of the charges opposite the 3 MPs and a Tory counterpart were revealed.

Mr Chaytor, 60, of Todmorden, Lancashire, is indicted of on condition that fake report on an allowances form underneath the Theft Act 1968.

The assign states he secretly claimed rents in in in in in in in in between Sep 2005 and Aug 2006 for 152 Hide Tower, Regency Street, London, from Sarah Elizabeth.

It combined he claimed �12,925 by camp a explain for �1,175 a month in rent when he was in actuality the owners of the premises.

A second assign settled that on or about May 19, 2006, he dishonestly filed dual invoices for computer IT services value �975.

The justice request combined they supposed to show the services had been supposing in Feb and Mar 2006 by Paul France.

A third assign settled that in in in in in in in in between Nov 2005 and Sep 2006 he dishonestly done make use of of a short-hold control agreement in a explain form.

This showed that in in in in in in in in between Aug 2007 and Jan 2008 he rented Delph Cottage, Castle Street, Summerseat, Bury, from Olive Trickett for �775 a month and a month deposit.

The assign combined that Mrs Trickett was his mom and it was not slight to franchise place to live from a family member. The sum sum claimed was �5,425.

Mr Devine, 56, of West Main Street, Bathgate, West Lothian, is indicted of secretly claiming costs for parliamentary duties in Mar 2009.

The assign piece purported he submitted dual dubious invoices value a sum of �5,505 for services supposing by Armstrong Printing Limited.

A second assign purported that in in in in in in in in between Jul 2008 and May 2009 he dishonestly claimed allowances for repair, word or security.

The request alleges he dictated to benefit by submitting fake invoices for services, cleaning and upkeep value �3,240.

The services were allegedly supposing in in in in in in in in between Apr 2009 and Mar 2010 by Tom O"Donnell Hygiene and Cleaning Services.

Mr Morley, 57, of West Street, Winterton, North Lincolnshire, is indicted of secretly claiming a furnishing stipend in in in in in in in in between Mar 2006 and Nov 2007.

The assign piece purported he submitted a fake debt application.

This showed �800 debt monthly seductiveness was charged by the Cheltenham and Gloucester when in actuality the debt was paid off. A sum overpayment of �16,000 was made.

A second assign purported that in in in in in in in in between Apr 2004 and Feb 2006 Morley done a serve fake debt seductiveness claim.

Again he is indicted of claiming �800 a month, a sum overpayment of �14,428.67.

Lord Hanningfield, additionally well known as Paul White, 69, of West Hanningfield, Chelmsford, Essex, faced 6 charges.

The offences are purported to have taken place in in in in in in in in between in Mar 2006, May 2007, Apr 2008, Jul 2008, May 2009 and Apr 2009.

One assign settled that on or about Apr 1, 2009, at Westminster, he done a prejudiced explain for travelling allowances.

It settled Lord Hanningfield ""purported to show that you were entitled to be paid losses when the conditions entitled you to remuneration of such losses had not been fulfilled"".

The 3 MPs left justice but commenting to journalists.

They got in to a watchful black taxi accompanied by their lawyers and escorted by military officers.