{"id":5003,"date":"2010-12-02T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/12\/02\/walsall-man-jailed-for-electoral-fraud\/"},"modified":"2010-12-02T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:26:55","slug":"walsall-man-jailed-for-electoral-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/02\/walsall-man-jailed-for-electoral-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsall man jailed for electoral fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Twelve week sentence for Ali Hayder Munir<\/h3>\n<div><strong>A WALSALL man has been jailed for electoral fraud.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ali Hayder Munir, 30, was jailed for 12 weeks at Birmingham Crown Court.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He pleaded guilty to two offences relating to making false applications for proxy votes to Walsall Council&#8217;s elections office.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Munir was handed a six week prison sentence for each offence, which will run consecutively.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detective Sergeant Paddy Gillece of West Midlands Police, Force CID said: &#8220;In his summing up Judge INMAM QC mentioned that the most important feature of our democratic process is that it must be free from corruption.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;He continued to say the court has a duty to protect it and that any individual involved in electoral fraud will inevitably attract a custodial sentence.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;West Midlands Police together with the Crown Prosecution Service and local authorities treat all incidents of election fraud seriously and we hope that the court has sent a clear message to those who may be considering such activities about the serious consequences &#8220;.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve week sentence for Ali Hayder Munir A WALSALL man has been jailed for electoral fraud. &#13; Ali Hayder Munir, 30, was jailed for 12 weeks at Birmingham Crown Court. &#13; He pleaded guilty to two offences relating to making false applications for proxy votes to Walsall Council&#8217;s elections office. &#13; Munir was handed a [&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-5003","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\/5003","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=5003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/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=5003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}