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Ex-MEP jailed for fiddling expenses

Updated on 11 November 2009

Source PA News

A former MEP who admitted fiddling £39,000 expenses has been jailed for two years at London's Southwark Crown Court.

Tom Wise, who represented Ukip before turning independent, spent 13 months channelling the money into a bank account he secretly controlled.

The 61-year-old, of Ship Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, pretended the £3,000 "secretarial assistance allowance" he received every month was for his 62-year-old researcher Lindsay Jenkins.

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