Help put Jacqui Smith on trial with the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics

Former Home Office civil servant Christopher Galley, now the research director of the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics, is trying to raise enough money to prosecute former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for fraud.

While she maintained that her sister's spare bedroom in London was her main home, allowing her to claim £116,000 for her second home,Galley claims that she spent most of her time at her alleged second house in Redditch,north-east Worcestershire.

According to Tim Shipman in the Daily Mail, the group has also made Freedom of Information requests for Jacqui Smith's appointments diary and details of her movements from the Whitehall car service.

Christopher Galley, who had access to Miss Smith's diary between January and November 2008, told the Mail: "From what I know having seen Jacqui Smith's diary and having watched her daily routine, I saw that she came in on Monday afternoon and left on Thursday evening.

"From what I can see Redditch was her main home and London was her second home."

Guido Fawkes reports that the Sunlight Centre raised £7000 the first day it asked for donations. Tens of thousands of pounds are needed to fight this case.

You can donate money to the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics here.

Let's have the truth in court, no matter how embarressed Jacqui Smith or the Labour Party might be. And let's do the same for all MP's, whether Labour, Tory, or Liberal Democrat, against whom a case could be brought for expenses fraud.

There must not be one law for the powerful and wealthy and another for the rest. Consider how hard Department for Work and Pensions are on alleged benefit cheats (ironic, given how greedy James Purnell and Yvette Cooper were!)