Fiona Onasanya MP has been charged with Perverting the Course of Justice. Official portrait CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

The Labour Member of Parliament for Peterborough Fiona Onasanya has been arrested and charged with Perverting the Course of Justice. The MP, of Nigerian descent, appeared at Westminster Magistrate’s court on 12 July 2018. The offence is alleged to have been committed after she was caught speeding only four weeks after her election. It is alleged that the MP conspired with her little brother Festus to avoid penalty points.

Fiona Onasanya is not to be confused with Mandy Richards, the female ethnic Labour candidate recently exposed as being the subject of 14 restraining orders. The trial is ongoing and being charged and arrested does not mean Onasanya will be found guilty. However if she is, she may fall under the Recall Act 2015, making her vulnerable to a recall vote by her constituents.