EX-M.P. SENT TO PRISON
Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, December 22.
A former Conservative member of Parliament was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at the Old Bailey Yesterday after pleading iniltv to fraudulent conversion and theft of clients’ totalling £19,660, vJhHe y working as a solicitor. William Compton, aged 53, North London, had pleaded auilty to six charges over two „«rs and had asked for seven similar offences to be conS!< clrr was the member for Barans Court from 1959 to After losing his seat ■Jtoe 1964 General Election, I” set up on his own as a solicitor the following year.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32797, 23 December 1971, Page 13
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