Former MP Jared O’Mara owed thousands to drug dealer, court hears
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#687R1)
Former Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam accused of making fraudulent expenses claims of nearly 30,000
A former Labour MP accused of expenses fraud was thousands of pounds in debt to a drug dealer and regularly took up to five grams of cocaine a day, a court has heard.
Jared O'Mara also once drank a litre of vodka before a television interview with BBC Look North and believed a shadowy government cabal" was out to get him, his former chief of staff Gareth Arnold said in messages and police interviews read to jurors at Leeds crown court.
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