Former MP Jared O'Mara jailed for four years after fiddling expenses to fund cocaine habit
O'Mara was convicted of six counts of fraud after trying to claim about taxpayers' money for work that was never carried out and for jobs that did not exist.The former Labour MP made four claims for a total of £19,400 from a "fictitious" organisation called Confident About Autism South Yorkshire, Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday.A jury found he submitted a false contract of employment for his friend John Woodliff, pretending he worked as a constituency support officer.
He won the Sheffield Hallam constituency for Labour from former deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg in 2017, but left two years later after a string of controversies.He stayed in Parliament as an independent, but did not stand in 2019. "When he felt that he was being hounded by the media, whether that is the case or not, he felt under pressure from the media for certain circumstances that had come to light," Mr Kelly said.
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