Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison by a Dhaka court for her role in a corruption case, but won't serve time due to lack of UK-Bangladesh extradition treaty Tulip Sadiq has been convicted in Bangladesh (Image: Getty)

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been handed a two-year jail term by a Dhaka court for her involvement in a corruption scandal tied to a government land scheme. The court ruled that the Labour MP had wrongfully swayed her aunt, deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to obtain a plot of land for her mother, Sheikh Rehana, who was slapped with a seven-year sentence as the principal defendant in the case.

The proceedings focused on the Purbachal New Town project, a government development situated in a Dhaka suburb. Siddiq, who serves Hampstead and

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