Former Labour MP Jared O'Mara reportedly tried to claim up to £30,000 of taxpayers’ money...
Jared O’Mara won the Sheffield Hallam seat at the 2017 general election, beating former Lib Dem leader Sir Nick Clegg MP tried to fraudulently claim up to £30,000 of taxpayers’ money to fund his ‘extensive cocaine habit’, prosecutors have said.
He is also accused of submitting two invoices from his ‘chief of staff’ Arnold for media and PR work that prosecutors say was never carried out, and a false contract of employment for Woodliff. O’Mara is charged with eight counts of fraud by false representation, with Arnold jointly charged with six of the offences, and Woodliff with one. They all deny the charges.
In the call, which was played to jurors, he said: ‘It’s a bit of a tricky one but yesterday I spoke to the 999 service and the mental health crisis team about my employer, who I believe is suffering a severe psychotic episode and has delusions of a conspiracy against him.
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