A former Conservative MP will go on trial subsequent 12 months accused of getting a false passport through the time she was sitting in parliament.
Katie Wallis, 41, of Butetown, Cardiff, grew to become the primary brazenly transgender MP within the Home of Commons in 2022.
Wallis, who makes use of feminine pronouns and was beforehand often called Jamie, served because the MP for Bridgend in South Wales from 2019 to 2024.
She appeared earlier than Newport Crown Court docket on Monday and faces two costs referring to the possession of a false passport.
The primary is possession of an id doc with improper intention, “namely a British passport in the name of Jamie Wallis, that was false and that she knew or believed to be false”.
The second cost pertains to the possession of a false id doc within the title of Jamie Wallis “that was false”.
Wallis was alleged to be in possession of the doc in April 2022, whereas she was nonetheless serving as a Conservative MP.
The defendant, who represented herself through the listening to, didn’t enter pleas to the 2 costs.
Decide Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, the Recorder of Cardiff, fastened a trial date for two November subsequent 12 months.
Wallis was launched on conditional bail.
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