Expenses cheat MP Elliot Morley has arrived the cushiest job in prison… as a right-hands man towards the prison chaplain.
The previous Work Atmosphere Minister, in prison for swindling £31,000 in false mortgage claims, works being an orderly, making tea, discussing theology and doing a bit of light cleaning.
His hrs are 9.30-11.30am and a pair of of-4.30pm. Also, he helps out at Sunday services, creating Bibles and arranging chairs.
The task, which pays him £9.50 per week being an enhanced inmate, is the very best in jail.
A resource revealed: “Morley has arrived on his ft and that he has among the cushiest jobs.
“Some think it might be his method of requesting redemption within the eyes of God… or he might simply want a simple existence.
“His appointment was greeted with elevated eyebrows by a few inmates and staff who felt it had been favouritism.”
Morley’s appointment could have been requested by prison chaplain the Rev Peter Master or allotted through the governor or jail labour board.
The shamed MP was sentenced to 16 several weeks for Britain’s worst parliamentary expenses fraud.
In June we revealed how Morley, 58, has been moved from tough Wandsworth prison in The West London to Ford open prison in Arundel, West Sussex, within two days to be jailed in May.
Most prisoners need to wait several weeks for the same move.
Elliot Morley
Our piece of mentioned that former MP Elliot Morley, jailed for his role within the MPs’ expenses scandal, had “arrived the cushiest job in prison” because of the right-hands man towards the prison chaplain. Actually, Mr Morley was employed among four orderlies within the Focus advice centre, assisting prisoners and supporting outdoors advice agencies, in addition to employed in the training Center. He didn’t work 4 ½ hrs each day as claimed but instead 8 hrs each day, 7 days per week.