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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/expenses-cheat-challenges-jail-term.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former Labour MP David Chaytor is serving an 18-month jail sentence for fiddling his parliamentary expenses" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-expenses-cheat-challenges-jail-term.jpg" alt="Former Labour MP David Chaytor is serving an 18-month jail sentence for fiddling his parliamentary expenses"/></a></p>
<p>Former Labour MP David Chaytor has launched a bid to challenge his 18-month jail sentence for fiddling his parliamentary expenses.</p>
<p>The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, and two other judges will hear an application by 61-year-old Chaytor at the Court of Appeal on March 22.</p>
<p>If the judges grant permission to appeal on that day they will go on to hear the full challenge. The prosecution will also be represented.</p>
<p>Chaytor, who forged tenancy documents and invoices to falsely claim more than £22,000 of taxpayers&#8217; money for rent and IT work from the Commons authorities, was jailed on January 7.</p>
<p>Passing sentence at London&#8217;s Southwark Crown Court, Mr Justice Saunders told Chaytor that putting him behind bars was one of the first steps in restoring public faith in the parliamentary system.</p>
<p>Chaytor, a former lecturer, of Lumbutts, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, initially denied the charges but changed his plea after failing to have the case thrown out citing parliamentary privilege and that he could not receive a fair trial because of media scrutiny.</p>
<p>He pleaded guilty to three counts of false accounting between November 2005 and January 2008.</p>
<p>The fraud involved bogus documents he submitted to support claims totalling £22,650 for IT services and renting homes in London and his Bury North constituency.</p>
<p>The Crown Court heard he only received £18,350 because he had already reached his limit for the IT expenses and was not awarded the full amount for one rental claim.</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for the judicial communications office confirmed that &#8220;an application for leave to appeal against sentence has been received&#8221;.</p>
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