{"id":7053,"date":"2014-12-01T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T16:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/01\/passport-for-dinner\/"},"modified":"2014-12-01T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T16:51:22","slug":"passport-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/01\/passport-for-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport For Dinner?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dudley man tried to eat passport after falsely sitting UK citizenship test <\/h3>\n

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\nA Black Country 999 operator, Wasim Hussain, tried to consume a fake passport after being caught taking a citizenship test for someone else. The West Midlands ambulance service worker was jailed for eight months after falsely sitting the test.<\/p>\n


\nThe 26-year-old sat the test at a Local Learning centre in Derby when his passport caught the eye of suspicious staff, after running it under ultra-violet light they discovered it was fake.<\/p>\n


\nSarah Slater, prosecuting, told Derby Crown Court, \u201cThe member of staff told the defendant she believed the passport was false and that he would not be sitting the citizenship test.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cHe became very angry and grabbed the passport from the desk, then tried to leave.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cBut the door was locked and he began to kick it. He then began ripping at the passport, pulling off the front page and started to eat the passport.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHussain was promised \u00a3300 to sit the test from the man who he named in court. The ambulance worker then pled guilty to possession of false identification with improper intention.<\/p>\n


\nSentencing Hussain, Recorder Martin Jackson QC said, \u201cThe possession of a bona-fide British passport gives people the right to certain privileges and those who falsely try to obtain one are undermining the whole system of immigration control.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cYou willingly accepted \u00a3300 to sit a citizenship test for another person who the prosecution tell me has never been traced.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cGiven the need for there to be deterrents for those who try to use false documents and circumvent immigration controls, there can only be one outcome \u2013 and that is custody.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nDefence Mohammed Sarwar said Husain\u2019s wife was pregnant with twins and that he was a sole carer for both parents. He added that Hussain was a \u201cvalued volunteer\u201d at Dudley Central Mosque, and also produced a letter from the ambulance service, confirming that Hussain would be dismissed if he was jailed.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThis offence took place at a time when he was struggling financially,\u201d Sarwar told the court.<\/p>\n


\nA spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said he could \u201cconfirm that disciplinary action has started\u201d after Hussain was jailed. \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dudley man tried to eat passport after falsely sitting UK citizenship test A Black Country 999 operator, Wasim Hussain, tried to consume a fake passport after being caught taking a citizenship test for someone else. The West Midlands ambulance service worker was jailed for eight months after falsely sitting the test. The 26-year-old […]<\/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-7053","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\/7053","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=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/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=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}