Bill Carr (politician)

William Compton Carr (10 July 1918 – December 2000) was a British solicitor and Conservative Party politician.

[3] In the 1959 landslide election, Carr was elected member of parliament (MP) for the seat of Barons Court in west London overturning a small Labour Party majority of 125 to win the seat by 913 votes.

In 1971 he was found guilty of fraud in the Central Criminal Court, and was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

He admitted to having converted nearly £20,000 of his clients' funds to his own use, some of which he used to buy out his partner's share in his legal practice, and part of which he used to pay off "a man who knew something about me which I did not want disclosed".

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