James Dunn (British politician)
James Anthony Dunn KSG (30 January 1926 – 27 April 1985) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.[1] In 1980, Dunn was convicted of shoplifting a sweatshirt, two ties and two armbands vauled at £15.13 from the Army & Navy Stores in Victoria and a map valued at 60 p from a stationers' shop in Artillery Row on 27 July 1979.Dunn claimed that he had panicked when he saw the store detectives as he thought they were people he had dealt with in Northern Ireland.Additionally the evening before the offense he had attended a late-night debate in Parliament and consumed five half-pints of beer in the House of Commons bar.Although he was found guilty, the judge accepted that his "appalling state of health" had caused him to act out of character and gave him a conditional discharge though he had to pay £100 costs.