MORE charges could be brought against a Labour MP's son who faces a jail sentence for stealing more than £2,000 from a politician, a court heard yesterday.

Malcolm Bell, son of Middlesbrough MP Stuart Bell, was to have been sentenced at Bow Street magistrates' Court, London, yesterday.

But the case was adjourned until March 7, and Bell's bail continued, after the court heard further charges of a similar nature were anticipated.

At an earlier hearing, 20-year-old Bell, of Onslow Road, Richmond, Surrey, admitted theft, obtaining property by deception, obtaining a money transfer by deception and attempting to obtain a money transfer by deception.

The court was told he pocketed four blank cheques from the office of George Galloway MP, on August 31 last year, while working for his father as a researcher.

He wrote one cheque for £1,788 and used it to buy an Egyptian bronze figurine over the Internet.

He made out another to himself for £350, which was transferred to his current account, and a third for £500, which the bank refused to cash.

District Judge Penelope Hewitt warned Bell at the earlier hearing that jail was a real possibility.