When Can We Expect Mary Miller To Be Unfit To Defend Herself About £90.000 Expenses.

[modeller]

Yet another MP claiming £90,000 expenses whilst spending time in her parents house. Mary Miller the culture secretary is playing the system , all legal and above board she claims.

Margaret Moran who ripped off the taxpayer for £53,00 has now used a doctor to avoid prosecution , after a jury had found her guilty.

I bet Mary Miller will pull the same stunt if she is ever prosecuted.

In the past couple of years criminals have been playing the same game and make a rapid recovery when the risk of prosecution is past.

[carolegif]

It goes back to the Guinness trial where the main defendant got off by saying he had Alzheimer's and got a doctor to Back him up. It was later described as a misdiagnosis. He is still alive!

[pdq1]

From what I have heard she won't be facing a criminal trial but the House of Commons watchdog. So if guilty a slap on the wrist, a speech admitting wrongdoing and a small fine. Similar to Jaquie Smith.

[Gromit]

Maria.

[Gromit]

Carolegif,

Ernest Sanders did not get off he was found guilty and went to prison.

He was let out early because he convinced the medics he had Alzheimer's. Then he miraculously recovered.

[carolegif]

Thank Gromit, I knew that he got let off to some degree with the Alzheimer's thing. Really angers me now as I lost my Mum to the disease at the end of last year.

[ludwig]

If they released Saunders from prison early because he had Alzheimers, they should have put him back in again when he 'recovered'.

[sir.prize]

There's the two MPs who rented one another's houses to claim taxpayers' money for mortgage purposes. Is that being pursued or quietly forgotten?

[douglas9401]

Is it only doctors from The Priory who will be believed by a court or could we penniless plebs have a go at convincing an NHS operative of how depressed we are and take them along to plead our case.
As ever it seems that falling foul of the law for those with power and privilege is completely different than for mere mortals.
She's a thief.

[douglas9401]

^ Margaret Moran that is ^

[Gromit]

sir.prize.

No, that is not being persued as it is entirely within the rules.

Who wrote the rules? - the people renting houses to each other.

The writers of 'Yes Minister' could never have invented this as no one would have believed it.

[THECORBYLOON]

In the Moran case, three psychiatrists, two for the defence and one for the prosecution, said she was unfit to plead. It is not a case of Moran using a doctor to avoid prosecution.

[FredPuli43]

Yes, corby. We can find suitably qualified doctors (at least one must be qualified in psychiatric medicine) by shopping around; you are bound to find two who think the right thing. But when the prosecution's man agrees with them, that's a gift, and pretty good evidence that the defendant is unfit.
Though I still think she was fortunate. I never understood the principle. I get that someone who is insane at the time of the act should not be treated as one who is. But someone who suffers a bout of depression after the crime and after being arrested and charged is never brought back for trial when they recover. They are dealt with finally as this woman was.