SHAME SHAME...
LONDON TAXI DRIVER MOVED COCAINE TO CORNWALL FOR £600 PAYMENT
A London cabbie who transported co- caine to Cornwall did so for a measly payment of £600. Isaac Bond, 26, hand- ed over £75,000 to co-defendant Tahir Malik, 45, who’d driven from London to meet him. Bond appeared at Truro Crown Court for sentence last month after previ- ously admitting pos- session with intent to supply cocaine. Bond was jailed for five years and on Friday March 13, Malik from Edgware, entered the dock to learn his fate. Prosecuting the case, Lee Bremridge said: “On August 19 2019 Tahir Malik
drove to Cornwall and met Isaac Bond. They travelled to a remote spot outside Bugle.” Mr Bremridge des- cribed how Bond got out and handed over a rucksack, but when he became aware police were present he ran away. He was eventually caught when a police car cornered him against a gate, Malik was appre- hended later on the M5; he had been under surveillance throughout. Bond was caught with two one-kilo packages of high purity cocaine which if sold on the street it was esti- mated the drugs
approached by indi- viduals who offered him easy money to transport drugs. The separate £600 he had on him was his payment.
Tahir Malik
could fetch between £150,000 and £200,000. Malik was found with £75,000 in bags and envelopes and a further £600 that he later admit- ted was his payment for the trip. Representing Malik, Nigel Wraith ex- plained that whilst working as a taxi driver Mr Malik was
“He is clearly an intelligent man who did something com- pletely stupid.” Sentencing, Judge Simon Carr said:
“You were a taxi driver and having got yourself into debt was persuaded to traffic high purity cocaine into Corn- wall. “When caught you had on you two highly encrypted mobile phones used in organised crime. Your debts were as a
result of ill health of family members and not linked to drugs but you were aware of the amount you were transporting. “You have significant personal mitigation and the effect on your family has been significant.” Malik was jailed for four years.
WOMAN KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS AFTER FIGHT WITH DRIVER IN HALIFAX
A woman had to be rushed to hospital when she was knocked uncon- scious after rowing with a taxi driver in Halifax. Around 2.30am on
Saturday, March 14, the victim was in a taxi on the A629 Keighley Road, The woman and her part- ner were involved in an argument with the driver and the
victim was assaulted after getting out of the taxi. She was taken to hospital for treat- ment of her injuries. Police are appealing for witnesses.
EAST LANCS TAXI DRIVER CAUGHT RED-HANDED DELIVERING KILO OF HEROIN
A drugs courier caught red-handed delivering a kilo of heroin has been jailed for five years. Khuram Riaz, from Nelson, was convict- ed by a jury in February of ferrying the £25,000 pack- age of Class A drugs to Safraz Rabnawaz at the Body Fuel shop in Lilycroft Road, Bradford. According to the Lancashire Tele- graph, Riaz, 30, struggled with plain clothes police offi- cers in the shop at 3pm on July 2, 2018, and had to be sub-
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dued when he tried to escape, prosecu- tor Giles Bridge told Bradford Court.
Crown
He denied conspir- ing with Rabnawaz and others to bring the drugs into Brad- ford
from Lanc- ashire.
Riaz, a taxi driver, said he had known Rabnawaz, a weight trainer, from child- hood and had bought steroids and protein shakes from his shop. He was spotted in a white BMW in a side street near the store and watched by the
Khuram Riaz
police as the drugs transaction took place. Riaz told the jury he thought the arrest- ing officers were robbers and bur- glars because they
wore masks and baseball caps. He was afraid and tried to run away. His DNA was found on a gilet that the drugs were seized from. He was remanded in custody after the guilty verdict and was sentenced last month.
Mr Bridge said Riaz must have been a trusted courier to be given a kilo of heroin to deliver. “It was a large-scale operation involving the wholesaling of drugs into Brad- ford,” he said.
Imran Shafi, Riaz’s barrister, said he was of previous good character. He was performing a limited function in the drugs operation under the direction of others. The drugs were of 53 per cent purity, low for a wholesale consignment. “If you are bringing something in, you make the most of your illicit methods and bulk it up over here,” Mr Shafi said. He pointed to the number of refer- ences written on behalf of Riaz, who
was sentenced on a video link to Brad- ford Crown Court from Leeds Prison. “It is a very, very unusual background for a person caught up in this sort of offending,” Mr Shafi told the court. He stressed that Riaz was still main- taining his inno- cence in the face of the jury’s verdict. Judge Colin Burn told Riaz: “It may be the only, and it is certainly the first, criminal offence you have ever commit- ted but it is a very serious one.”
APRIL 2020
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