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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Jared O’Mara ‘thoroughly rotten’, prosecutor in fraud trial says

Jared O'Mara
Jared O'Mara denies all eight counts of fraud by misrepresentation against him. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

A former Labour MP accused of expenses fraud has been described as “thoroughly inadequate”, “thoroughly rotten” and “stuffing the parliamentary payroll with mates and cronies” who did no relevant work.

Jared O’Mara came up with “a series of scams” to help fund his “galloping” cocaine habit, prosecutor Richard Wright KC told a jury on Thursday.

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