{"id":7315,"date":"2015-02-11T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/11\/lying-cabbie-passed-points-to-pal\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:21:10","slug":"lying-cabbie-passed-points-to-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/11\/lying-cabbie-passed-points-to-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lying Cabbie Passed Points To Pal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Driver Triggered Three Speed Cameras In Six Weeks<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lying-cabbie-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A cabbie has narrowly escaped prison for trying to palm off speeding points onto another driver \u2212 a man police discovered was not in the country at the time having been deported three years earlier. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Abid Manzoor, from Essendon Grove in Alum Rock, triggered three speed cameras within the space of six weeks whilst working for a private hire firm. But instead of taking the fine and points on his licence \u2212 which was clean \u2212 he completed paperwork suggesting a friend was behind the wheel at the time. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Officers from West Midlands Police\u2019s Camera Enforcement Unit looked into the case when forms sent to Mr Jawad Abassi \u2212 deported to Pakistan in July 2011 having been jailed for drink driving \u2212 bounced back as \u201cunknown at this address&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>At Birmingham Crown Court he was handed a six-month jail term, suspended for two years, ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work in the community, and had eight points added to his licence. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>PC Steve Jevons from West Midlands Police, said: \u201cIt never ceases to amaze me how people think they can lie and avoid punishment for driving offences \u2212 but this was a particularly odd case as Manzoor\u2019s licence was clean so even with the points he wouldn\u2019t have been banned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver Triggered Three Speed Cameras In Six Weeks A cabbie has narrowly escaped prison for trying to palm off speeding points onto another driver \u2212 a man police discovered was not in the country at the time having been deported three years earlier. &#13; Abid Manzoor, from Essendon Grove in Alum Rock, triggered three speed [&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-7315","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\/7315","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=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/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=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}