Conway may still face police probe
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said they were not "ignoring the situation" as one of his senior officers asked a sleaze watchdog if they wanted the force to look into the case.
The decision not to call in the police was announced by Sir George Young when he told MPs that Mr Conway would be suspended from the Commons for 10 days and forced to repay the money. Sir George chairs the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee to which Mr Lyon reports.
"There is a protocol. The protocol was agreed with the previous Parliamentary Standards Commissioner," he told a meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority. "It doesn't appear from the face of it that that protocol was fully followed in this particular case and what we have done is to write to the Standards Commissioner and ask him whether he is going to refer the matter to the MPS, and if he isn't what are his reasons and we await that answer."
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Anyone, it seems, who trespass fraudulently with tax Payers money,will be prosecuted, unless you are an MP. Derek Conway will escape any sanction at all unless the public make their derision known.
Your MP is available through the media of the Internet so why not tell him/her how you feel?
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