Fiona Onasanya leaving the Old Bailey, where she was convicted of perverting the course of justice

The Labour MP found guilty of lying to police to avoid a speeding charge has compared herself to Jesus and Moses in a defiant message to her colleagues.

Fiona Onasanya, 35, was suspended and urged to quit the Commons by the Labour Party after her conviction for perverting the course of justice.

She told party colleagues yesterday: “I am in good biblical company along with Joseph, Moses, Daniel and his three Hebrew friends who were each found guilty by the courts of their day.”

The solicitor lied “persistently and deliberately” to police about who was driving her car in an attempt to avoid penalty points after it was recorded at 41mph in a 30mph zone near Thorney in her Peterborough constituency.

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