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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Yes, the Police should investigate him for fraud.
Yes! Isn’t this the LibDems’ role in society? Shop him!
Actually, I think this is probably Cameron’s job. He should show that he is cleaning out the Tory stables. Dave should be calling the police right now.
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.