Ian Clement, one of Boris Johnson’s ‘deputy mayors’, pleaded guilty today of offences under the Fraud Act.

Clement was charged with five offences last month over his misuse of a City Hall credit card. Today he pled guilty to three charges totalling £156.70, the remaining two were withdrawn.

After initial allegations surfaced in early June Johnson said he was “angry” about the “crass” behaviour of his aide who he said would appear before a meeting of the London Assembly to explain his behaviour.

Following “the discovery of further discrepancies in the use of his corporate credit card”, City Hall announced Clement “has resigned from the Greater London Authority (GLA) with immediate effect.”

Two days later the London Assembly Business Management and Administration Committee (BMAC) were told City Hall officials had held initial discussions with the Police about the matter.

Following the row Johnson to reorganised his office, withdrawing the job title of ‘Director’ from a number of appointees and announcing that in future post holders would be referred to as ‘Mayoral Advisor’, a more accurate description of their status.

That move was widely seen as an admission that his decision to hand out the “bauble” job title of ‘deputy mayor’ to his advisors had backfired and had tarnished his administration.

Last month City Hall Liberal Democrats called on Johnson to publicly apologise to Londoners for “failing to fulfil his central election pledge to ‘Restore trust in how City Hall spends our money’”.

After entering his guilty plea this morning Clement issued the following statement: “I have failed to live up to the high standards of office that were properly expected of me.

“I have given many years of dedicated public service to London, which has been my pride, my passion and my life. That is now over.

“There is no denial in regards to my responsibility. I very much regret and indeed am truly sorry for my actions and that these have let down many good people, my family, my friends and colleagues including, and not least, the mayor of London.”

Mr Clement was sentenced to a 12 week suspended sentence and ordered to carry out 100 hours community service.

A London Assembly report has called for “a random testing programme to assess a proportion of expense claims in greater detail each year”.