Shamed ex-Labour MP Fiona Onasanya claims conviction for lying to cops about speeding offence is miscarriage of justice
DISGRACED former Labour MP Fiona Onasanya is claiming her conviction for repeatedly lying to police about a speeding offence is a miscarriage of justice.
She has applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to send her case back to the Court of Appeal.
The 36-year-old solicitor is representing herself and has sent a dossier of “new material”.
Onasanya was expelled from the Labour Party after being found guilty in December 2018.
She was sentenced to three months’ jail at the Old Bailey in January 2019 and was released after serving one month.
The former Peterborough MP appealed last March, but her case was thrown out by three judges.
At her failed appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice Onasanya told the court: “The charge against me was perverting the course of justice.
"I said from the outset, and I still maintain my innocence, that I did not do that.”
Rejecting Onasanya’s appeal, Sir Brian Leveson said it was a “tragedy” that her career had been damaged irrevocably.
“There is absolutely no basis for challenging her conviction,” he said.
She was removed from her Commons seat in May last year after a successful recall petition.
The CCRC confirmed it is investigating the case.
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