{"id":4113,"date":"2009-10-06T16:20:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/10\/06\/jailed-criminal-flees-court\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:42:37","slug":"jailed-criminal-flees-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/06\/jailed-criminal-flees-court\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jailed\u2019 criminal flees court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Police hunt on for Shoaib Asif<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"263\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ShoiabAsif_180x232.jpg\"\/>POLICE are hunting a man who leapt the dock and fled out of a packed courtroom as he was being sentenced for assaulting a police officer.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Shoaib Asif has been on the run for over a month after he fled from Sessions House in Preston on 4 September. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He was to be sentenced for causing actual bodily harm to one police officer and a further assault against a second police officer which took place in August 2008. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He was found guilty of both offences, but as he was being sentenced to six months imprisonment by a judge he made his getaway. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Asif jumped over the barriers surrounding the dock and ran from the courtroom into the corridor assaulting a security guard and out of the building.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>PC Mohamed Badat of Preston Policesaid the force was keen to apprehend Asif.&#8221;This is a very serious and rare offence and we are determined to get Mr Asif back before the courts to serve the time for the crimes he has committed.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>If anyone has any information as to his whereabouts, please contact police on 01772 203203 or anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police hunt on for Shoaib Asif POLICE are hunting a man who leapt the dock and fled out of a packed courtroom as he was being sentenced for assaulting a police officer. &#13; Shoaib Asif has been on the run for over a month after he fled from Sessions House in Preston on 4 September. [&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-4113","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\/4113","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=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/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=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}