{"id":6269,"date":"2013-12-16T16:38:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/student-jailed-for-shotgun-photo-on-facebook\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:42:08","slug":"student-jailed-for-shotgun-photo-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/student-jailed-for-shotgun-photo-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Jailed for Shotgun photo on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Birmingham student has been jailed for posing with a shotgun picture<\/h3>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";\n\tmso-fareast-\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-\"Times New Roman\";\n\tcolor:windowtext;}\np\n\t{\n\tmargin-top:0cm;\n\tmargin-right:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:9.0pt;\n\tmargin-left:0cm;\n\tfont-size:12.5pt;\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";\n\tmso-fareast-\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-\"Times New Roman\";\n\tcolor:#494949;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n]]><\/style>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"225\" width=\"460\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Kassam-Iqbal-460x225.jpg\"\/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A student from Birmingham has been jailed for posing in a picture whilst holding a shotgun and then uploading it to Facebook. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<span>Kassam Iqbal, 19, a student from Matthew Boulton College in  Birmingham uploaded the picture to the social networking site and added  the caption, \u201cYo, straps. Fully loaded sawn-off shottie.\u201d <\/span>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<span>He was arrested on campus at Matthew Boulton College after being  tracked down by West Midlands Police Officers. Whist being interviewed,  he told police that he had only touched the weapon and had no intention  of doing anything with it. Officers then proceeded to search his house  and found the weapon in a bag behind a metal cabinet alongside 24  cartridges and a BB gun which fired plastic pellets. <\/span>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIqbal was jailed for a total of 10 months after admitting to possessing an illegal shortened shotgun.&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nJudge Sylvia de Bertadano told the defendant, \u201cYou are here because in May you posted a picture on Facebook. It is probably the most foolish thing you have done in your life because you were posing with a sawn-off shotgun.&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cAs a result, since July you, a 19-year-old with no previous convictions, have been remanded in custody.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe prosecution has put this down to a moment of bravado. You were showing off.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI consider you have paid for it. The period you have spent in  custody is the equivalent of over a ten-month sentence. You have learned  your lesson.\u201d<\/span> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham student has been jailed for posing with a shotgun picture &#13; &#13; A student from Birmingham has been jailed for posing in a picture whilst holding a shotgun and then uploading it to Facebook. &#13; Kassam Iqbal, 19, a student from Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham uploaded the picture to the social networking site [&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-6269","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\/6269","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=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/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=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}