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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/exmp-faces-expenses-scam-sentence.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Illsley admitted dishonestly claiming more than 14,000 pounds in expenses" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-exmp-faces-expenses-scam-sentence.jpg" alt="Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Illsley admitted dishonestly claiming more than 14,000 pounds in expenses"/></a></p>
<p>Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Illsley faces a possible prison term when he is sentenced for fiddling his expenses.</p>
<p>Illsley, 55, was under massive pressure to stand down as the member for Barnsley Central after he pleaded guilty last month to dishonestly claiming some £14,500 of public money.</p>
<p>But he did not quit as an MP until Tuesday night, and is believed to have received about £5,400 from his £65,000-a-year parliamentary salary since admitting the offences.</p>
<p>Illsley became the first sitting MP convicted for abusing expenses when he changed his pleas to guilty at the start of his trial on January 11.</p>
<p>He had previously denied dishonestly claiming a total of more than £25,000, arguing that lax Commons allowances were designed to &#8220;supplement&#8221; the income of politicians. But his barrister William Coker QC said his client admitted wrongly obtaining a revised sum of about £14,500.</p>
<p>Illsley, of Westmoor Crescent, Pogmoor, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to three charges of false accounting relating to three years of expenses on his London property.</p>
<p>Prosecutor Peter Wright QC said the Crown accepted the revised figure for the dishonest claims.</p>
<p>Despite the questions hanging over his expenses, Illsley was re-elected last May with a majority of more than 11,000. He could theoretically have stayed on as a MP with a jail term of less than 12 months.</p>
<p>However, following calls for him to go from both Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband, he expressed &#8220;deep regret&#8221; over his actions and said he would quit before the court decided his fate.</p>
<p>The by-election for Illsley&#8217;s Barnsley Central seat is expected to be held on March 3.</p>
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