MP’s phones ‘found in area when car caught speeding’

The court heard that on February 3 last year Onasanya, a trained solicitor, had no difficulty correctly filling out an NIP form after triggering another camera the month before. That time she had avoided points on her licence by going on a speed awareness course.

A police investigation allegedly found her two mobile phones were in the area of the traffic camera around the time it was activated on July 24.

And she had not claimed expenses for accommodation in London since the Friday before, the court heard.

The Cambridgeshire police camera unit sent an NIP to Mr Antipow but it was returned to sender. Mark Williams, an investigator from the Cambridgeshire Camera Ticket unit, repeatedly tried to contact Ms Onasanya.

On November 2, she allegedly told him that she “stands by her nomination”.

When she attended a voluntary interview at Bedford Police headquarters on January 2, she declined to answer questions.

Mr Jeremy said: “It must, as some of us may know, be very irritating to receive that bit of paper telling us that we have triggered a speed camera and asking us to name the driver of the car.

“But while irritation is understandable, telling lies to frustrate an investigation into an offence is not.

“What Miss Onasanya did when her vehicle was trapped on the 24th July 2017 was not just to own up and tell the truth which would have been so much better, but to adopt her brother’s method of evading prosecution.”