Because of the contempt in which crooked MP's have been held, it is a short step to imagine that a woman who would cheat the nation would also cheat the legal system.
I don't think the logic holds up at all.
Professional psychiatrists are not in the habit of 'letting off' criminals by using their expertise to deny legak orocess, it just doesn't fly.
The knee-jerk reaction is to assume that a woman who has faked expenses is faking a mental illness, but anyone who knows anything about depression knows that faking it to an expert is highly unlikely.
I therefore err on the side of sympathy, given that like everyone else passing moral judgements, I know nothing about the case, or the individual concerned.
We should not be too quick to leap into the national default mindset of shadenfreude.