PR boss in £250k House of Lords ‘scam’

A PR boss helped himself to £250,000 paid to his firm by the Police Federation then tried to cover up the fraud by claiming he had paid the money to members of the House of Lords, a court heard. Christopher McEvoy, 45, falsely claimed some of the money had gone to peers including Baroness Ruth Henig and Lord Gordon Wasserman, it is claimed. McEvoy was the sole director of political lobbying firm Thornhill Public Affairs Limited, Southwark Crown Court hash eard….