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Lord Hanningfield makes first appearance in court

3:38pm Thursday 11th March 2010 in


LORD Hanningfield, former leader of Essex County Council, appeared in court yesterday charged with making false expenses claims.

Wearing a grey suit, the 69-year-old appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court and said he would deny charges of wrongly claiming for "repayment of travelling and other expenses".

One charge states that on or about April 1, 2009, at Westminster, he made a dishonest claim for travelling allowances.

The charge states he: "purported to show that you were entitled to be paid expenses when the conditions entitled you to payment of such expenses had not been fulfilled".

Hanningfield, whose real name is Paul White, faces six charges of false accounting, relating to claims for overnight allowances from the House of Lords between 2006 and 2009, when records allegedly show he was in fact driven to his home near Chelmsford.

The sums he claimed were between £150 and £170.

Hanningfield was released on unconditional bail to appear at Southwark Crown Court on March 30.

Comments(19)

Voter99 says...
4:22pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Labour MPs claiming that they are above all the law.

Typical Labour - in it for themselves

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firedog says...
4:52pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Typical M.Ps you mean,although rose coloured glasses make them all look red.

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evilc says...
5:00pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Lord Ha Ha

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undertaker says...
5:31pm Thu 11 Mar 10

The bigwig slumming it with the oiks....! What a fall from grace.

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Sdapeze says...
6:38pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Don't you worry. Toffs look after their own. Lord H is Teflon coated.

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crosby says...
8:58pm Thu 11 Mar 10

The slimy shyster said on the telly he had given 40 years public service and never been paid a penny!! What a liar - he not only had a very generous allowance as a county councillor and latterly leader, but his expenses as a Lord too. And that's without anything he's found guilty of stealing.

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OTTS says...
9:04pm Thu 11 Mar 10

This is a guy who bought his title how sad for a former pig farmer.
Why on earth do Parish Councillors think this mortal is a top man in our villages?..now see this gent as what he is? a con man.And im not educated!!!!!!!!

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Basil Faulty says...
9:17pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Why isn't Jenkin in court with this lot of thieves? Looking at the other MPs charges, he seems to have fiddled more than any of them. He stiffed us for £60,000, complains about it and has it reduced to £30,000 but that's OK is it?
It looks as though the CPS haven't got enough computing power to work out Lord Haw Haws fiddles.

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perini says...
10:59pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Voter99 wrote:
Labour MPs claiming that they are above all the law. Typical Labour - in it for themselves
He's a Conservative!!!!

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RitchieHicks says...
7:52am Fri 12 Mar 10

Lord Toad of Toad Hall....

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love Dr says...
8:50am Fri 12 Mar 10

send him down.He needs to l
ose weight as well

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Soozie says...
9:36am Fri 12 Mar 10

Thieving bum - no better than benefits cheats, actually worse.

When found guilty should pay the money back and go to jail!

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love Dr says...
10:28am Fri 12 Mar 10

well said sozzie,dont mix your words.

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OTTS says...
11:15am Fri 12 Mar 10

Poor old Lord Hanningfield !
It seems to me the expig farmer has been telling a few PORKIES,and now he is trying to save his Bacon?
Or do pigs fly?.........

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love Dr says...
11:33am Fri 12 Mar 10

He would make a good hog roast,Thats all he would be good for.

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Soozie says...
11:42am Fri 12 Mar 10

I want to see him found guilty and treated like the common criminal he is.

The fact he is trying to use parlimentary privilege to get out of his crimes against the taxpayer makes it even more revolting.

Shame on you.

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totallyfootball says...
11:55am Fri 12 Mar 10

I think he has had far too much parlimentary privilege already, how many other times has he lined his filthy pockets before this came to light? With regards to Jenkin I think it will be slowly, slowly catchy monkee and that the police are taking bite size chunks. Why else would they be doing the little villans first?

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Goonerboy says...
11:56am Fri 12 Mar 10

Your article , like the TV report last night highlights his claims at £100 to £150 a night making it soulnd small beer. I beleive he is actually charged with over £100,000 of such claims
http://www.dailymail
.co.uk/news/article-
1197214/Police-probe
-Tory-peer-claimed-1
00-000-overnight-exp
enses-staying-Essex-
farmhouse.html

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love Dr says...
12:36pm Fri 12 Mar 10

EVEN HIS DOG IS'NT HIS BEST FRIEND NOW.WHAT GOOD DID HE DO AT THE TOWN HALL,APART FROM EATING ALL THE PIES

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