Lord Hanningfield, 70, a former Lords opposition frontbencher and Essex County Council leader, was convicted by a jury of nine women and three men at Chelmsford Crown Court following an eight day trial.They returned their verdicts after four hours of deliberation.He had denied fraudulently claiming parliamentary expenses totalling nearly £14,000 between March 2006 and May 2009. The charges relate to six individual one month periods.But the jury found that he unlawfully claimed expenses, including £13,379 for overnight stays in London when he was...
