A Political Career In Tatters
Updated: 2:02pm UK, Tuesday 13 November 2012
Margaret Moran's expenses claims were some of the most notorious of the Westminster scandal and shattered her political career.
It was all a far cry from her promising start in the Labour party in the 90s.
Moran first stood for election in 1992 and finished third in the race for Carshalton and Wallington.
Despite the defeat, she was picked for an all-woman shortlist to stand for Labour in Luton South in the 1997 election, going on to win the seat from the Tories.
She was re-elected in the 2001 election, and promoted to assistant whip, then went on to be voted in for a third term in 2005.
In October that year, her expenses claims for 2004-5 emerged as the second highest in the country - coming to £168,569.
And when the expenses scandal broke in 2009, she was revealed to have claimed £22,500 to treat dry rot at her partner's home in Southampton - 100 miles from her constituency and Westminster.
She remained defiant in the immediate aftermath, saying: "Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner."
But amid growing public fury she announced she would stand down at the next general election, saying the "understandable public anger" had caused her great stress.
In the first hint of medical problems that would later render her unable to stand trial, she said this had "seriously worsened my existing health problem".
Moran was formally barred from standing again as a Labour candidate and agreed to repay the money.
She had already been off work since the expenses scandal erupted, blaming stress, but the drama did not end there.
In March 2010, she was among several MPs - including three ex-Cabinet ministers - caught in a TV "sting" agreeing to use their position to influence government policy for cash.
The group were secretly filmed discussing the possibility of working for what they thought was an American lobby company.
Moran was suspended from the Labour Party after the revelations.
Little was then heard from her until September 2011 when the Crown Prosecution Service announced she would face criminal charges.
She wept inconsolably throughout a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, having to be passed a tissue by a court official.
It was later ruled that she was unfit to stand trial because of her mental health problems but a trial of the facts went ahead in her absence.
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