Then, once he had wiped his hands of us dirty smokers, he began thieving from us for 18 months on a mortgage he had already paid off.
Elliot Morley, the former agriculture minister, continued claiming for the mortgage interest on his constituency home for more than 18 months after the loan had been repaid.
Lawyers last night said that the claims could constitute a criminal offence under the 2006 Fraud Act and the 1968 Theft Act.
How does it feel to be treated like a stain on society, Elliot? Not nice, is it?
Hopefully you'll soon be sharing a cell with a chain-smoking, sexually-starved psychopath. What goes around etc.