Jared O'Mara makes his maiden Parliamentary speech in 2018
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Ex-Labour MP Jared O’Mara has been jailed for four years for making fraudulent expenses claims to fund an “extensive” cocaine habit while in office. O’Mara, who represented Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019, was convicted of six counts of fraud. The court heard that the 41-year-old was in thousands of pounds in debt to a drug dealer and submitted fraudulent invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), the body which regulates MPs’ business costs and pay.
Leeds Crown Court heard O’Mara made four claims for a total of £19,400 from a “fictitious” organisation called Confident About Autism South Yorkshire.
A jury found he also submitted a false contract of employment for his friend John Woodliff, pretending he worked as a constituency support officer.
O’Mara was cleared to two counts of fraud.
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