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A FLURRY of right-wing rags have resurrected a decade-old conviction that was already in the public domain in a bid to discredit top Jeremy Corbyn aide Marshajane Thompson.
Stories published yesterday in the Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mail “revealed” that the new Labour Party campaign manager was convicted of using a false instrument and false accounting in 2006.
However she has long since completed the 100 hours of community service she was sentenced to for wrongly claiming the equivalent of £21.15.
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
