Tulip Siddiq MP Photo by Nicola Tree/Getty Images

Former City minister Tulip Siddiq has complained of living in a “Kafkaesque nightmare” after she was handed a two-year jail sentence in a Bangladeshi trial she branded a “kangaroo court”.

In a ruling on Monday, a judge in Bangladesh found the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate guilty of abusing the “special influence” she had as a British politician over the country’s former prime minister – and her aunt – Sheikh Hasina.

The ruling found Siddiq coerced Hasina – who was deposed after protests broke out across the south Asian country objecting to a freedom of speech crackdown – into handing prime real estate to her mother and siblings that had been obtained illegally.

Sheikh Rehana – Siddiq’s mother – was handed a seven-year prison sent

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