{"id":2299,"date":"2006-09-11T18:20:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T18:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/09\/11\/blind-driver-given-suspended-sentence\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:37:13","slug":"blind-driver-given-suspended-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/11\/blind-driver-given-suspended-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind driver given suspended sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong>A blind man who drove his car on the wrong side of the road has been given a suspended jail sentence.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>31-year-old Omed Aziz was convicted of dangerous driving after police spotted his car on the wrong side of the road in April this year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He had pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing to a charge of dangerous driving, as well as driving with no MOT, no licence and no insurance.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Aziz, who was being directed by another man, was given 12 weeks in prison suspended for a year, banned from driving for three years and ordered to take an extended driving test.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The court was told Iraq-born Aziz was arrested along with a 21-year-man on 23 April after police followed their car along Oldbury Ringway and into West Bromwich Street.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The defendant, who also has just three fingers on his right hand and suffers from leg tremors and is partially deaf, lost his eyes in a bomb blast in Iraq.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He receives \u00a3520-a-month in incapacity benefit. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He was also ordered to pay \u00a3364 in prosecution costs. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blind man who drove his car on the wrong side of the road has been given a suspended jail sentence. &#13; 31-year-old Omed Aziz was convicted of dangerous driving after police spotted his car on the wrong side of the road in April this year. &#13; He had pleaded not guilty at an earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}