Drink, drugs and defrauding the state: the spectacular fall of Jared O’Mara

A shock election winner in 2017, O'Mara rarely went to parliament and just lay in bed all day'

Six years ago, Jared O'Mara was seen as a breath of fresh air for British politics. You don't see people like me - young, working-class lads with disabilities - in parliament, but now you're going to," he said with understandable pride.

Today, O'Mara's reputation is in tatters, his fall as spectacular as his rise. The former MP for Sheffield Hallam has been found guilty of trying to claim about 24,000 of taxpayers' money to help fund a prodigious drug habit.