Former MP Jared O’Mara ‘gurned and clenched teeth’ at staff meeting, court hears

Jared O’Mara, who became MP for Sheffield Hallam in 2017, is on trial for eight counts of fraud. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

A former Labour MP held a constituency staff meeting where he was gurning, grinding his teeth and “talking a million miles an hour”, a court has heard.

Jared O’Mara “appeared to be on some sort of substance”, said Kevin Gregory-Coyne, a former caseworker for the MP.