The rapper Sean Kingston was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on Friday after being convicted of a $1 million (£738,000) fraud scheme.

The 35-year-old, whose legal name is Kiesan Paul Anderson, and his mother Janice Eleanor Turner, were both convicted in March for conspiracy to commit wire fraud plus four counts of wire fraud.

Turner was sentenced to five years in prison last month, while her son's sentencing was rescheduled.

The pair were both arrested in March 2024 after a Swat team raided Kingston's rented mansion in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Turner was taken into custody during the raid, while her son was arrested at Fort Irwin, an army training base in California's Mojave Desert, where he was performing.

Court records claim that Kingston used his social media to arra

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