Jail sentence for Labour MP Tulip Siddiq

Tulip Siddiq at her North London home yesterday after she was sentenced to jail

- BY JOHN BESLEY

LABOUR MP Tulip Siddiq has been handed a two-year prison sentence by a court in Bangladesh.

A judge found the ex-minister guilty in her absence of corruption involving a government land project.

Her aunt, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced to five years.

Ms Siddiq, who is MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, denies the allegations.