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The brother of the Peterborough MP Fiona Onasanya was sentenced today (January 29) alongside his sister for lying to police over a speeding ticket.

Festus admitted three counts of perverting the course of justice in November, a week before he was due to face trial with his sister.

He will now serve 10 months in prison.

One of the three charges he admitted related to an incident on July 24, when his sister was driving at 41mph in a 30mph zone.

Festus filled out the Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) for this incident, stating that a former tenant of his was driving the car. The former tenant, Aleks Antipow, was actually in Russia at the time.

The court heard the singer-songwriter and former deliveryman had a string of previous convictions dating back to 2008.

During the MP's first trial, her defence laid most of the blame on brother Festus, 34, saying he was "manipulating" and "banking" on his sister's status as an MP and a former solicitor to him "get out of a hole."

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The defence also claimed he had a history with driving offences, with nine points already on his licence and a history of blaming his Russian tenant for his previous speeding tickets.

At his sentencing today, Festus' previous crimes were read out in court, and included criminal damage, possession of cannabis and offensive robbery.

The robbery happened in Cambridge in 2009, when Festus was the 'inside man' in the Vodka Revolution in Downing Street, Cambridge.

He had been working at the bar for a little over a year before opening a fire escape door and letting two men in at closing time.

The two men both wore disguises, and were shown up to the manager's office by Festus, where they cornered the manager while she was cashing up alone.

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The two men threatened her, saying they would hurt her if she didn't open the safe for them.

The disguised robbers then escaped in a getaway car with more than £6,000 in cash but were stopped by police on the M11, with two other men involved in the robbery.

Police searched Festus' phone and found he had exchanged calls with the gang's ringleader throughout the evening of the robbery. He then admitted his involvement.

Festus was initially sentenced to four years and six months in prison, but senior judges at London's Court of Appeal cut his jail time to three years and nine months.

The sentence was reduced after the court heard he had been intimidated into helping the gang so he could pay off debts he had with the ringleader.

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The four other men involved were convicted of robbery and three of them received custodial sentences of between four years and four years, 10 months.

The fourth had a seven-year jail term he was already serving extended by three years, of which he would serve 18 months.

At the sentencing today, Festus' defence lawyer Jonathan Barnard said the former delivery driver had turned his life around since being sent to jail for robbery.

He had been pursuing his "dream job" as a singer and performer and now makes a living from it - a "remarkable" achievement for a man with his troubled past, Mr Barnard said.