Eric Illsley (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Eric Evlyn Illsley is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament for Barnsley Central from 1987 until 2011. He was a Labour Party representative until suspended from the party after being charged with fraud as part of the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, and then sat as an Independent. When he pleaded guilty to three charges of false accounting on 11 January 2011, he became the first sitting Member of Parliament to be convicted of a criminal offence in the scandal. Illsley resigned from the House of Commons on 8 February 2011, following his conviction, and was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment on 10 February 2011