Eric Joyce
Eric Stuart Joyce (born 13 October 1960) is a British politician, former military officer, and a convicted sex offender who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2000 to 2015 and served as Shadow Minister of State for Northern Ireland in 2010. A former member of the Labour Party, Joyce was MP for Falkirk West from 2000 to 2005 and MP for Falkirk from 2005 to 2015.Joining the army in his teens, Joyce served as a private in the Black Watch before attending University and subsequently receiving a commission in the Royal Army Educational Corps. He resigned from the army under threat of discharge in 1999 at the rank of major after being found to have broken Queen's Regulations. He then worked as the Public Affairs Officer at the Commission for Racial Equality (Scotland).
Joyce was first elected to the British House of Commons in the 2000 Falkirk West by-election. From 2003, Joyce served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to several UK government ministers. He resigned as the PPS to Bob Ainsworth on 3 September 2009, citing concerns over the war in Afghanistan. He was the Shadow Minister for the Northern Ireland Office under Ed Miliband in 2010.
Joyce was arrested five times during his last five years as an MP, most notably in February 2012 on suspicion of assault after an incident in the Houses of Parliament. This led to his immediate suspension from the Labour Party, before pleading guilty to all charges and resigning from the party the following month. He continued representing his constituency as an independent until retiring at the 2015 general election. On 7 July 2020, Joyce pleaded guilty at Ipswich Crown Court to making a Category-A indecent movie of a child said to be 12 months old, between August 7, 2013 and November 6, 2018. Joyce was ordered to sign the sex offenders register and will be sentenced in August 2020. The Judge at the trial told Joyce that due to the seriousness of the crime he was facing a custodial sentence.
Joyce lived in Perth, Scotland, with his family for most of his childhood and adolescence. He joined the Army in 1978, initially as a private in the Black Watch before taking a sabbatical between 1981 and 1987 to attend technical college and university where he gained a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies from Stirling University. As a university candidate, he was made a probationary second lieutenant on 25 August 1987. In 1987 he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before being commissioned into the Royal Army Educational Corps (later Adjutant General's Corps) as a subaltern with seniority to 7 October 1981. After receiving his commission he continued his studies part-time and acquired an MA in Education from the University of Bath and an MBA from Keele University. During his time in the Army he served in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Germany and Central America. He was promoted to captain on 25 January 1990 and to major in 1992.
Joyce publicly described the armed forces as "racist, sexist and discriminatory", A Fabian pamphlet by Joyce titled Arms and the Man: renewing the armed services had been published without the proper authorisation, breaching Queen's Regulations, which govern the conduct of officers in the British armed forces. He continued to speak out about how he perceived the army to the disapproval of his superiors. At a hearing in January 1999 which invoked the Pay Warrant rules, Joyce was requested to resign from the army by 13 March or be discharged. He resigned his commission on 12 March 1999 and left the army,
Joyce subsequently served on the staff of the Commission for Racial Equality (Scotland) before his election to the House of Commons
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