A former MP who was jailed for fraud has lost a legal bid to challenge his four-year jail sentence.The court heard O'Mara tried to obtain £52,000 of taxpayers' money to fund a cocaine habit by submitting bogus claims for parliamentary expenses.
At the Court of Appeal, his application to appeal the jail term was rejected by judges during a short hearing. O'Mara was elected to Parliament for Labour in June 2017, unseating former deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in the Sheffield Hallam constituency. He quit the party the following year and became an independent after he was suspended by the party over comments he had posted online before becoming an MP.Follow BBC Yorkshire on
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