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Court appearance this week for Bury North MP David Chaytor
12:44pm Tuesday 9th March 2010
BURY North MP David Chaytor is to appear before City of Westminster Magistrates in London on Thursday on three counts of false accounting.
Also appearing on separate charges will be Livingston MP James Devine, Elliot Morley, MP for Scunthorpe, and Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield who is leader of Essex County Council.
The court cases follow an eight-month investigation into MPs’ expenses, the results of which were announced by Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer at a press conference in February.
David Chaytor, who has represented the Bury North constituency since 1997, faces three counts under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968 for false accounting.
• The first count alleges that, in May 2006, Mr Chaytor dishonestly claimed £1,950 for computer services by using false invoices.
• The second count alleges that, between September 2005 and September 2006, Mr Chaytor dishonestly claimed £12,925 for renting a property in Regency Street, London, when he was allegedly its owner.
• The third charge alleges that, between September 2007 and January 2008, Mr Chaytor dishonestly claimed £5,425, purportedly for renting a property in Bury from his mother.
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