1:39pm UK, Wednesday January 19, 2011
The trial of a former Tory Peer accused of false accounting in relation to his expenses claims has continued for a third day.
Lord Taylor is accused of pretending his main home was outside London
Lord Taylor of Warwick denies dishonestly claiming £11,277 in House of Lords expenses.
The 58-year-old is alleged to have claimed his main residence was in Oxfordshire, when he was actually living in London.
He is accused of claiming for mileage between the two homes and overnight subsistence to cover being in the capital.
A former barrister, he faces six counts of false accounting under the 1968 Theft Act - allegedly committed between March 2006 and October 2007.
Lord Taylor became a government special adviser in the early 1990s and was enobled as the first black Conservative peer in 1996.
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