A former Labour west Kent MEP has been jailed for four years for expenses fraud after splashing taxpayers' cash on a Hawaiian honeymoon.Peter Skinner, 56, of Recreation Avenue, Snodland, wrongfully claimed thousands of pounds that should have been used to cover staff costs.He was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court today having previously been found guilty of one count of fraud, one count of false accounting and one count of making a false instrument.The court heard how officers from the Kent and...
