{"id":13797,"date":"2016-04-27T13:26:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T12:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=13797"},"modified":"2016-04-27T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T12:26:04","slug":"graduate-found-lying-to-police-over-speeding-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/27\/graduate-found-lying-to-police-over-speeding-sting\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Found Lying to Police over speeding Sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ayesha Ahmed, of Baptist End Road, Netherton, was caught twice speeding by the same speed camera near her home in St. Peter\u2019s Road on July 30<sup>th<\/sup> last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was then said to have paid \u00a3450 worth of cash to a bous lawyer who claimed to exploit a \u2018legal loophole\u2019 in the system, allowing her to avoid three penalty points being added onto her licence.<\/p>\n<p>Police were told that a Ms Nosheen Yoqum, from Forrester Street, Walsall, was behind the wheel of Ahmed\u2019s BMW at the time of the offences.<\/p>\n<p>However, police checks revealed that numerous other speeding offences had been linked to the address along with named drivers who had never been residents there.<\/p>\n<p>As well as police suspicions, Ahmed had previously contacted officials pleading to be excused for the charges, claiming she broke the speed limit because she was being followed.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Ahmed, who graduated with a 2:1 in International Relations and Politics, admitted her efforts in trying to dodge the penalty points, but thought she had enlisted the help of a specialist speeding lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>After a two day trial, the jury at Wolverhampton Crown court unanimously found her guilty of trying to prevent the course of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Ayesha was sentenced to three months behind bars as well as a 58-week driving ban.<\/p>\n<p>Pc Steve Jevons, of the West Midlands Police Camera Enforcement Unit, said: \u201cAhmed has paid a heavy price for thinking she could lie her way out of speeding offences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe examined footage of the offences and it\u2019s clear she was not being followed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe jury concluded she was deliberately trying to avoid justice and not, as she claimed, victim of a scam by a bogus lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe never met this \u2018legal expert\u2019, didn\u2019t have an address or phone number for him, and paid the money via a third party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a sorry tale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has no previous convictions but a potentially promising career is now in ruins and all because she wanted to retain a clean licence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayesha Ahmed, of Baptist End Road, Netherton, was caught twice speeding by the same speed camera near her home in St. Peter\u2019s Road on July 30th last year. The 27-year-old was then said to have paid \u00a3450 worth of cash to a bous lawyer who claimed to exploit a \u2018legal loophole\u2019 in the system, allowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}