Labour MP Fiona Onasanya has been charged with two counts of perverting the course of justice after allegedly lying to police about who was behind the wheel of a speeding vehicle.

The Peterborough MP, who won the key marginal seat in 2017, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on July 12.

The 34-year-old was charged over allegedly lying about who was behind the wheel of a speeding vehicle in two separate incidents in Cambridgeshire last year.

Prosecutors say Ms Onasanya conspired with her younger brother Festus to avoid penalty points, once when she was driving and once when he was behind the wheel, and passed them to a third party.

Ms Onasanya was allegedly behind the wheel of a speeding car on July 24 last year - just four weeks after becoming an MP - but told authorities that a third party had been driving.

On August 23, Festus Onasanya was allegedly speeding, but Ms Onasanya is accused of lying to authorities that another person was driving.

Festus has also been charged with misleading the police.

Court records show the CPS say that 'together with Festus Onasanya' she 'falsely informed the investigating authorities that Aleks Antipow had been the driver of the said vehicle…to avoid such prosecution and punishment.'

Cambridgeshire Police have confirmed to MailOnline the alleged offence took place in its in area.

Ms Onasanya, an ally of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, is due to appear at the Old Bailey on August 13 for a plea hearing.

The offence of perverting the course of justice carries a maximum penalty of life in jail. 

The case echoes that of ex-Liberal Democrat Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne.

Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce were both jailed for eight months each in 2013 for perverting the course of justice after she took speeding points for the former Liberal Democrat MP.

But they both only served two months of their sentences.

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