Local MP Found Guilty of False Expenses Claim

Chris Davies, MP for Brecon and Radnor, has been in court about a fraudulent expense claim he put in when setting his offices up back in 2015.
It's a sufficiently serious offence that the magistrate at Westminster Magistrates' Court said he didn't consider his sentencing powers to be sufficient to deal with the case, so it's gone up to the Crown Court for sentencing.
In other words, they're going to throw the book at him.
Reading through the report on the BBC website, the issue seems to be the deliberate nature of the fraud, rather than the amount involved (£700), considering that a Member of Parliament should be held to a high standard of conduct.
This could mean that Brecon and Radnor will be having a by-election soon.