Fiona Onasanya can no longer practice as a regulated solicitor (Picture: Yui Mok/Joe Giddens/PA Wire)

A disgraced former Labour MP has been struck off as a solicitor after lying about a speeding offence.

Fiona Onasanya, 35, ‘failed to act with integrity’ when she claimed someone else was driving her speeding car at 41mph in a 30mph zone in July 2017, a misconduct tribunal decided on Tuesday.

The shamed politician was sentenced to three months in prison in January after being convicted of perverting the course of justice.

She served 28 days and subsequently became the first MP to be removed by a recall petition, losing her seat as Peterborough MP.


According to Sky News, during the misconduct tribunal this week, Edward Nally, chairman of a three-member panel at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in central London, said: ‘As a parliamentarian makes the law so a solicitor must uphold the law and rule of law, and sadly in this case Ms Onasanya has failed in those duties.

The disgraced former MP lied to avoid a speeding conviction (Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

‘We must strike off Ms Onasanya from the roll of solicitors.’



He added: ‘That conviction we are aware has led to disastrous consequences for Ms Onasanya both personally and professionally.

‘As a solicitor there are professional consequences that follow from a proven act of dishonesty that has been found by a jury after trial.’

Ms Onasanya can no longer practice as a regulated solicitor after a number of allegations were found proven.

She hit out at the decision, telling the panel she was ‘pursuing avenues to clear my name’.

She added: ‘I maintain that I did not do an act tending or intending to pervert the course of public justice.’

Ms Onasanya has insisted she did not pervert the course of justice (Picture: Joe Giddens/PA Wire)

Ms Onasanya defended herself on Twitter after her conviction, claiming she had ‘not perverted the course of justice’.

In a video, she said: ‘Throughout the last few months, you would have seen news articles, television articles, and also read on social media about my case.

‘And, all of this time, I have not been able to share my side. But, just like a coin has two sides, so does a story.

‘And this is my time now to share with you, without media spin, what my side of the story is.

‘From the outset, I have maintained my innocence. I have not perverted the course of justice.

‘I have not colluded with my brother. My defence was never put across in the media.

‘At all times, they always put forward the prosecution’s case.’

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