A sitting Labour MP has been given a two-year jail sentence in Bangladesh after being found guilty in her absence of corruption allegations.
Tulip Siddiq, a former minister and sitting MP for Hampstead and Highgate, rejects the charges and, the BBC reports, is unlikely to serve the sentence.
She denies but was found guilty of influencing her aunt Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's ousted prime minister, to secure a plot of land for her family in the outskirts of the capital Dhaka.
The trial had been ongoing since August.
Siddiq quit as a Treasury minister in January over controversy around her connection with her aunt.
When the trial began, the MP said prosecutors had "peddled false and vexatious allegations that have been briefed to the media but never formally put to me by investigators".
A statement on her behalf continued: "I have been clear from the outset that I have done nothing wrong and will respond to any credible evidence that is presented to me. Continuing to smear my name to score political points is both baseless and damaging."
She has not commented publicly since the verdict was delivered.