Ex-MP David Chaytor Sentenced to 18 Months for Expenses Fraud

<p><br /> Former Labour MP David Chaytor has been jailed for 18 months for making false Parliamentary expenses claims.<br /> </p><p><br /> Chaytor, 61, became the first politician to be convicted and sentenced over the expenses scandal which has rocked Westminster.<br /> </p><p><br /> He submitted bogus invoices to support claims totalling £22,650 for IT services and renting homes in London and his Bury North constituency.<br /> </p><p><br /> But the properties were owned by him and his mother, and he did not pay out any of his own money, Southwark Crown Court in London heard.<br /> </p><p><br /> Chaytor, of Lumbutts, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty last month to three counts of false accounting between November 2005 and January 2008.<br /> </p>