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Fri 03 Mar 2010Magistrate insists accused MPs stand in the dock
THREE LABOUR MPs who have been barred from standing again for their party were yesterday ordered to stand in the dock by a magistrate when they appeared to answer charges of fiddling parliamentary expenses.
The three, David Chaytor, Jim Devine and Elliot Morley, had wanted to stay in the body of Westminster Magistrates’ Court rather than take places in the dock before they were ordered to do by the judge, Timothy Workman.
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