Mark Pack

Derek Conway: should the police investigate him for fraud?

By | Thu 29th January 2009 - 12:52 pm

Now that the Standards and Privileges Committee has decided that Derek Conway should repay several thousand pounds that wrongly went on employing one of his sons, Duncan Borrowman (who lodged a complaint originally about the whole affair) says:

I call again for the Metropolitan Police to investigate Mr Conway for fraud.

You can read more on Duncan’s blog.

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3 Comments

  • Terry Gilbert 30th Jan '09 - 1:37am

    As I’ve said before on this forum, I used to be a Probation Officer, and have known first offenders get community service or go to jail for far less. Magistrates and judges tend to take take a dim view of ‘theft from employer’, especially when it is the public purse. Repayment should be a mitigating factor, but there are plenty of aggravating ones in this case, it seems to me. The authorities would throw the book at a benefit fraudster who had wrongly taken this amount of money, and so they should in this case too.

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