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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Pilgrim

Ex-MP jailed over expenses fraud loses appeal against prison sentence

A former MP jailed for expenses fraud has lost a Court of Appeal bid to challenge his four-year prison sentence.

Jared O’Mara was found to have “abused his position” by trying to claim about £52,000 of taxpayers’ money for work that was never done and jobs that did not exist.

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