Speed MP: I have been a target for my views
A LABOUR MP facing a jail sentence for lying about a speeding offence claimed to fellow MPs she was only targeted by police because she supported Jeremy Corbyn, a newspaper alleged yesterday.
Fiona Onasanya was convicted of perverting the course of justice last week after a plot with her brother to avoid a penalty notice in July 2017 was exposed.
A by-election in her Peterborough constituency could be triggered if she is imprisoned for the offence at a sentencing hearing to be held in the new year.
Conspiracy
The newspaper claimed that the Left-wing MP had told colleagues she was being victimised “by the state” because of her political views.
It quoted an unidentified Labour MP as saying: “She was going around saying it’s all a conspiracy and Jeremy Corbyn supporters are being targeted by the state.”
Ms Onasanya and her office did not respond to email and telephone enquiries about the allegation yesterday.
After her conviction, the devout Christian surprised colleagues by sending a text message comparing herself to Jesus.
Ms Onasanya wrote: “I am in good biblical company along with Joseph, Moses, Daniel and his Hebrew friends who were each found guilty by the courts of their day.”
She added: “Christ was accused and convicted by the courts of his day and yet this was not his end but rather the beginning of the next chapter of his story.”