FORMER Labour MP David Chaytor has lost a challenge against the length of his jail sentence for fiddling his parliamentary expenses.
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, and two other judges sitting at the Court of Appeal in London refused to reduce the 61-year-old’s 18-month prison term.
Chaytor, a former Calderdale councillor, who forged tenancy documents and invoices to falsely claim more than £22,000 of taxpayers’ money for rent and IT work from the Commons authorities, was jailed on January 7.
It had been urged on his behalf that the appropriate sentence was one of 12 months.
