Kate Osamor called the emergency services twice when reporters asked her to comment on inconsistencies in her accounts of her son's court case

A Labour MP has been accused of wasting police time after she called 999 when journalists arrived at her home to ask questions about her drug dealer son.

Former frontbencher Kate Osamor called the emergency services twice when reporters asked her to comment on inconsistencies in her accounts of her son Ishmael's court case.

Scotland Yard sent six officers in 24 hours in response to the calls, the Times reported.

A Conservative member of the London Assembly has now criticised the 50-year-old for 'shamelessly wasting police resources.'

Two officers arrived at Ms Osamor’s £700,000 north London property on Friday after a reporter queried when and what she knew about her son’s conviction for intent to supply drugs.

The MP for Edmonton then allegedly threw a bucket of water over the reporter and called the police.

The questions came after it emerged on Saturday that Ms Osamor had sent letters of correspondence to the judge in her son's case requesting leniency before he was served a community order on October 19.

When approached by reporters at her house, Ms Osamor, who quit as Labour's International Development spokesperson at the weekend, reportedly said she 'should have come down here with a bat and smashed your face in'.

Ishmael, a parliamentary aide, had been caught at the Bestival music festival with £2,500 worth of drugs last year.

The news of Ms Osamor's intervention contradicted earlier accounts from Labour that she only heard about his case when she began being questioned by journalists on October 26.

Ms Osamor contacted the police again after another reporter called following the release of this story last week.

Scotland Yard sent six officers in 24 hours in response to Ms Osamor's (pictured with Jeremy Corbyn) calls

Four officers were dispatched in this case, but Scotland Yard refused to disclose what led to this many being sent.

Ms Osamor previously blamed the government for the loss of 100 police officers in her area.

Susan Hall, a Conservative member of the London Assembly, said: 'It's a bit rich of Kate Osamor to complain about police cuts and at the same time shamelessly waste police resources.'

A spokesman for Labour said: 'The Labour Party always provides information that we believe to be accurate.'

It comes after Ms Osamor found herself at the centre of a nepotism row when it was revealed she had made Ishmael her senior communications officer in April 2016.

She previously defended keeping him in his £50,000-a-year job by claiming she had been unaware of his crimes at the time.