Jared O’Mara, 41, represented the constituency of Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019.
A former MP jailed for expenses fraud has lost a Court of Appeal bid to challenge his four-year prison sentence.
O’Mara sought permission to appeal his sentence, but his renewed application was rejected by the Court of Appeal in London on Tuesday. A jury found he also submitted a false contract of employment for his friend John Woodliff, pretending he worked as a constituency support officer. Arnold, who became O’Mara’s chief of staff in June 2019, was sentenced to 15 months suspended for two years after a jury found him guilty of three fraud charges, but cleared him of a further three.Prosecutor James Bourne-Arton previously said the fraud was not a victimless crime and that it had an impact on other MPs “because it undermines public trust and confidence in them”.
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