The Daily Telegraph understands that detectives will imminently pass files on Labour MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, and peers Baroness Uddin, Lord Hanningfield and Lord Clarke of Hampstead to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Keir Starmer, the country’s top prosecutor, is expected to make a decision on whether to prosecute the politicians as early as January, before a General Election.
The Director of Public Prosecutions will decide whether the MPs and peers face court on counts of fraud, which carries a maximum sentence on conviction of 10 years, or false accounting, for which the maximum penalty is up to seven years.
Police and criminal lawyers are confident that charges will be brought.
It’s good to see some of the worst troughers may be facing a long jail term if they ever get to court.
I am not fully convinced that all the cases will get by the crown Prosecution Service.
Legislation should have been included in the
Once again Gordon Brown has failed this Country.
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