{"id":4261,"date":"2009-11-13T12:37:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T12:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/gun-possession-man-jailed\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:49:17","slug":"gun-possession-man-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/gun-possession-man-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun possession man jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Aamir Iqbal sentenced to five years<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"266\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AamirIqbal_180x232.jpg\"\/>A BRADFORD man who was caught hiding a gun in his flat has been jailed for five years.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Aamir Iqbal, 29, was arrested in April 2008 after officers found a semi automatic 9mm handgun following a search of his flat on Leeds Road. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Iqbal pleased guilty to possessing a firearm saying he was looking after the handgun for someone else. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But his story was rejected and he was jailed for five years. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nDetective Inspector Craig Lord said: &#8220;This sentence shows that anyone being caught with a firearm will be dealt with severely. We now have a dedicated team at Bradford South division specifically for investigating firearms incidents. We will investigate all firearms offences vigorously and will not tolerate guns on the streets of Bradford. I would appeal to anyone who knows someone who has an illegal firearm to contact Police.&#8221;&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aamir Iqbal sentenced to five years A BRADFORD man who was caught hiding a gun in his flat has been jailed for five years. &#13; Aamir Iqbal, 29, was arrested in April 2008 after officers found a semi automatic 9mm handgun following a search of his flat on Leeds Road. &#13; Iqbal pleased guilty to [&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-4261","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\/4261","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=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/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=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}