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Jared O'Mara served arsenic MP for Sheffield Hallam from June 2017 to November 2019
A erstwhile MP who tried to assertion £24,000 of taxpayers' wealth to assistance money his cocaine wont has been jailed.
Jared O'Mara sent fake invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), the assemblage which regulates MPs' concern costs and pay.
O'Mara, Sheffield Hallam MP from 2017 to 2019, was thousands of pounds successful indebtedness to a cause dealer, his proceedings heard.
He was convicted of six counts of fraud and sentenced astatine Leeds Crown Court connected Thursday to 4 years successful prison.
Gareth Arnold, who submitted invoices to IPSA connected behalf of O'Mara, was fixed a 15-month jailhouse word suspended for 2 years.
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