MOTE:UKIP MEP TO PAY BACK LESS THAN HALF THE CASH HE FLEECED

A former UKIP MEP who fleeced the European Parliament out of £500,000 while boasting of clearing up corruption has been ordered to pay back less than half of the money. Ashley Mote, 80, is serving a five year sentence for ‘milking the cash cow to the limit’ by making fraudulent claims for Parliamentary Assistance Allowance. Mote was previously jailed for nine months at Portsmouth Crown Court following a separate £65,000 benefit fraud in 2007. A confiscation hearing at Southwark Crown…