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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Katie Dickinson

Ex-MP accused of fraud ‘was thousands of pounds in debt to drug dealer’

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A former MP accused of making fraudulent expense claims to fund a drug habit was thousands of pounds “in debt with a dealer”, a court has heard.

Jared O’Mara, 41, who represented Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019, “did cocaine instead of going to Parliament”, messages read to a jury said.

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