A disgraced former Tory peer with a home in Oxford is facing jail for fiddling his expenses to claim more than £11,000 from the taxpayer.
Lord Taylor of Warwick, 58, will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court after being convicted of falsely filing for travel and overnight subsistence.
He told the House of Lords members' expenses office that his main residence was a house in Oxford, when he actually lived in west London.
The peer never stayed in and only rarely visited the Oxford property, which was owned by his half-nephew's partner, and so he was not entitled to claim money for travelling from there to London and staying overnight in the capital.
Lord Taylor, of Lynwood Road, Ealing, was the first parliamentarian to stand trial and be found guilty by a jury over the expenses scandal.
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