Shamed MP Fiona Onasanya smiled as she walked free from prison today after just four weeks behind bars - where she still took home her £5,500-a-month taxpayer-funded salary.
Onasanya was sentenced to three months in jail at the end of January for perverting the course of justice after lying about a speeding ticket, but is being let out as part of an early-release scheme.
Onasanya, 35, a solicitor, was swept out of HMP Bronzefield in Surrey early this morning after 28 days in custody.
The MP will be forced to wear an electronic tag and obey a curfew but will otherwise be at liberty.
Shamed MP Fiona Onasanya smiled as she walked free from prison today after just 28 days behind bars
Onasanya, 35, a solicitor, was swept out of HMP Bronzefield in Surrey early this morning after 28 days in custody, where she still earned her £77,000 MP's salary
She could even come back to the House of Commons to speak – and vote – in the crunch Brexit debate tomorrow.
Fiona Onasanya arrives at the Old Bailey where she was convicted of perverting the course of justice
Labour has kicked Onasanya out of the party, but she has continued to collect her £77,000 salary while behind bars.
If she had been jailed for a year or more, she would have been forced to give up her Peterborough seat, but the three-month sentence means she will face a by-election only if 10 per cent of her constituents sign a ‘recall petition’. She is also appealing against her conviction.
Calls for the sentence to be extended were dismissed yesterday after the Government’s most senior law officer decided it was not unduly lenient. Onasanya was jailed at the Old Bailey on January 29.
The following day several complaints were received by the Attorney General that the sentence was too short.
But a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office said: ‘A referral under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme to the Court of Appeal can only be made if a sentence is not just lenient but unduly so, such that the sentencing judge made a gross error or imposed a sentence outside the range of sentences reasonably available in the circumstances.
‘The threshold is a high one, and the test was not met in this case.’
CCTV footage showing Fiona Onasanya speeding 41mph in a 30mph zone in the village of Thorney near Peterborough
If the sentence had been deemed unduly lenient, it would have been sent to the Court of Appeal for a decision on whether it should be increased.
Jurors in Onasanya’s trial heard that the MP colluded with her brother Festus, 34, after her car was clocked doing 41mph in a 30mph zone in the village of Thorney, near Peterborough, in July 2017.
Festus Onasanya, Fiona's 33-year-old brother, was also jailed over the conspiracy
The court was told she was sent a ‘Notice of Intended Prosecution’ to fill out, but it was sent back naming the guilty driver as Aleks Antipow, an acquaintance of her brother, who was in Russia at the time. Her brother received ten months in prison after admitted three counts of perverting the course of justice relating to speeding offences, including the July 24 incident.
At the trial, Mr Justice Stuart-Smith described Onasanya’s decision to deceive police as ‘disastrous’. He added: ‘You have not simply let yourself down; you have let down those who look to you for inspiration, your party, your profession and Parliament.’
He said the politician ‘stupidly’ chose to become embroiled in a scam hatched by her brother. The MP has refused to confirm she was driving at the time, despite a court ruling that she was.
Mr Justice Stuart-Smith said the sentence was the shortest possible and drew attention to Onasanya’s ‘exemplary character’. He added: ‘You do not accept the correctness of the conviction; but I have to sentence on the basis that the disaster which has befallen you is self-inflicted.’
Between January and June last year, the number of inmates freed under home detention curfews, which allows them to be released with a tag, soared by 50 per cent from 2,196 to 3,304.
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Main photo article Shamed MP Fiona Onasanya smiled as she walked free from prison today after just four weeks behind bars – where she still took home her £5,500-a-month taxpayer-funded salary.
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