{"id":27727,"date":"2018-11-28T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27727"},"modified":"2018-11-28T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:53:11","slug":"traffic-warden-attacker-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/28\/traffic-warden-attacker-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Warden Attacker Jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man who viciously attacked a traffic warden has been jailed. The traffic warden who was on his phone to a colleague on 14 September this year, was attacked by a gang of four following an earlier dispute.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Danyal Bashir, 19, of Hartopp Road, Alum Rock, was part of the group who set upon the 21-year-old-traffic warden telling him he did not belong on \u2018their land\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The man was then dragged from his moped on Hartopp Road, pushed over and repeatedly stamped on his head.<\/p>\n<p>Following the brutal assault, the group stole his moped, leaving him injured in the road.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public stopped to help and he was taken to hospital for treatment and his injuries were not serious.<\/p>\n<p>A video footage was circulated of the incident and, following an appeal which was shared thousands of times, Bashir was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to assault by causing actual bodily harm on Friday 23 November and sentenced to nine months in jail at Birmingham Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Chief Inspector Jim Munro, from force CID, said, \u201cWe hope that this sentence provides some comfort to the victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level of violence used in the attack was shocking and he is very lucky he was wearing his helmet otherwise the outcome of this assault could have been a lot worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to thank members of the public for their fantastic response to our appeals.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Another man, Maneeb Shah, aged 20 of Lancelot Close, Birmingham, has also been charged with assault and will appear at court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who viciously attacked a traffic warden has been jailed. The traffic warden who was on his phone to a colleague on 14 September this year, was attacked by a gang of four following an earlier dispute. Danyal Bashir, 19, of Hartopp Road, Alum Rock, was part of the group who set upon the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[264,1389,1719],"class_list":{"0":"post-27727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-latest","8":"category-local-news","9":"category-news","10":"category-top-stories","11":"tag-birmingham","13":"tag-traffic-warden"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27727","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=27727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}