Jared O'Mara is convicted of trying to claim almost £24,000 to fund a cocaine habit.
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He submitted fraudulent invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority , the body which regulates MPs' business costs and pay.The court heard O'Mara, 41, made four claims to IPSA for a total of £19,400 for services he said had been provided by a "fictitious" organisation called Confident About Autism South Yorkshire.
All the invoices were rejected by IPSA due to a lack of detail about the work carried out, the jury was told. Judge Tom Bayliss KC told him: "I've permitted you until now to attend via videolink, I'm afraid that indulgence has now ceased." Mark Kelly KC, representing O'Mara, told the court his client had autism, was born with cerebral palsy and was suffering from anxiety and depression at the time of the offences.
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