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1 August 2011
Last updated at 07:39 ET
Former Labour MP Jim Devine has been released from prison after serving a quarter of his 16-month sentence for expenses fraud.
The ex-MP for Livingston was jailed in March after he was found guilty of claiming £8,385 using false invoices for cleaning and printing work.
He was released from Standford Hill Prison in Kent on Monday morning.
Devine is one of six parliamentarians - four former Labour MPs and two peers - to have been jailed for expenses fraud.
David Chaytor and Eric Illsley have both already been released under the home detention curfew scheme after serving a third and a quarter of their sentences respectively.
The fourth ex-MP, Elliot Morley, remains in prison, along with Conservative peers Lord Taylor and Lord Hanningfield.
Bankruptcy At his trial, the judge, Mr Justice Saunders, said Devine, 57, had "set about defrauding the public purse in a calculated and deliberate way".
He said cleaning and maintenance work claimed for by Devine was either not done at all or not paid for by Devine, and that invoices submitted for printing work were "entirely bogus".
And he said Devine had been "lying in significant parts of the evidence that he gave" during his court case.
In mitigation, Devine's lawyer said the fraud had been "entirely out of character" and prison would "bear heavily on him".
Devine was declared bankrupt in April, following a separate hearing at Livingston Sheriff Court.
The insolvency order was made after he failed to pay his former office manager Marion Kinley £35,000 for unfair dismissal.
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The ex-MP for Livingston was jailed in March after he was found guilty of claiming £8,385 using false invoices for cleaning and printing work.
He was released from Standford Hill Prison in Kent on Monday morning.
Devine is one of six parliamentarians - four former Labour MPs and two peers - to have been jailed for expenses fraud.
David Chaytor and Eric Illsley have both already been released under the home detention curfew scheme after serving a third and a quarter of their sentences respectively.
The fourth ex-MP, Elliot Morley, remains in prison, along with Conservative peers Lord Taylor and Lord Hanningfield.
Bankruptcy At his trial, the judge, Mr Justice Saunders, said Devine, 57, had "set about defrauding the public purse in a calculated and deliberate way".
He said cleaning and maintenance work claimed for by Devine was either not done at all or not paid for by Devine, and that invoices submitted for printing work were "entirely bogus".
And he said Devine had been "lying in significant parts of the evidence that he gave" during his court case.
In mitigation, Devine's lawyer said the fraud had been "entirely out of character" and prison would "bear heavily on him".
Devine was declared bankrupt in April, following a separate hearing at Livingston Sheriff Court.
The insolvency order was made after he failed to pay his former office manager Marion Kinley £35,000 for unfair dismissal.
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