The court told that O’Mara used 5 grams of cocaine almost daily (PA archive)O’Mara was also found to have submitted a false employment contract for Mr Woodliff, pretending to work as a constituency assistant. Mr Woodliff was acquitted by the jury of any role in the fraud. Prosecutor James Bourne-Arton said the fraud was not a victimless crime and that it impacted other MPs “because it undermines the public’s trust in them”. Arnold, who became O’Mara’s chief of staff in June 2019, was found guilty of three counts of fraud and acquitted of three. At his trial, it was found that O’Mara consumed 5 grams of cocaine almost daily, drank a bottle of vodka and smoked 60 cigarettes.
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