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NORTHAMPTON CABBIE CAUGHT WITH 11 KILOS OF CANNABIS GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE


A taxi driver who was carrying a large haul of cannabis was caught near Carlisle by eagle-eyed police. According to the News & Star, two PCs on routine patrol saw Hikmat Khan Safizada at Southwaite services on March 26. They watched 26-year-old Safizada park and open the boot of his Mercedes. “The officers could see two large card- board boxes inside,” prosecutor Niamh Ingham told Carlisle Crown Court. “He was seen moving one of the boxes in the boot before closing it.” Safizada drove on to the M6, but was stopped by the suspicious officers who searched the vehicle. The prosecutor added that his claim of heading to Glasgow airport to pick up


two people was challenged by the police who could smell cannabis and asked where the “passengers” would sit in his cluttered car. Eleven kilos of the class-B drug were found in vacuum-sealed bags along with two mobile phones, one of which contained a Port Glasgow address. When his home in Northampton was searched, police found £10,000 to 14,000 cash stashed in a wardrobe, along with more mobile phones. In a prepared statement, Safizada spoke of receiving an email from his landlord days earlier threatening him with evic- tion. He said he was offered £400 to transport a package to Scotland, and claimed the seized cash wasn’t his. He admitted possessing cannabis with


intent to supply and had been in cus- tody on remand for a month. Anthony Parkinson, defending, con- ceded: “It was a decision in the full knowledge that he was transporting a large quantity of cannabis, and he knew the consequences should he be caught, which he was.” Recorder Richard Archer heard Safiza- da had fled war-torn Afghanistan aged 13 and settled in the UK. which, the judge observed, “must have been a real culture shock”.


Citing his difficult upbringing, guilty plea and concluding there was a realis- tic prospect of rehabilitation, the Recorder suspended a 16-month jail term for two years. Safizada must also complete 180 hours’ unpaid work.


HARROGATE TAXI FIRM REFUSING TO PAY £25,000 FOR UNFAIR DISMISSAL


In June 2020, Tracey Lee won an employment tribunal against Airline Taxis after they sacked her in January of last year. But she has given up hope of ever receiving the £25,501 a judge ordered the company to pay her. The Stray Ferret reports that almost a year on from the tribunal she is yet to receive a penny from the taxi firm and described the “horrible” process of try- ing to get her money back through the courts. She said the system is stacked against individuals who have been unfairly dismissed. Ms Lee worked on the phones for the taxi company, which is based on East Parade on Harrogate, on and off for around three years. She said the work environment soured due to a change in management and, following a disagreement, she was sacked. She challenged the decision in an employment tribunal in June 2020, where she was successful. Airline Taxis failed to turn up to the


JUNE 2021


hearing, but the judge ordered the company to pay Ms Lee £25,501, which included loss of earnings. She said: “The way they treated me was diabolical. It’s not fair what they did.” In July 2020, Ms Lee went to Hudders- field County Court to try and obtain a court order to get her money back. The court ordered bailiffs to try and recover the money from Airline Taxis. However, they have tried and failed to reclaim money or assets from the com- pany on two separate occasions, the latest being in March 2021.


In an email sent to Ms Lee, the bailiffs said: “As suspected, there has not been a good outcome to your file” as “there was nothing to levy upon or apply pressure”. This is because the company has no assets, including its taxis. They are instead in the name of its sole director Mohammed Suleman. Ms Lee said she was even advised by a solicitor to “not waste any more money” on the case. She is now resigned to not seeing any of the money she is owed. She said in the months following her dismissal, she struggled to find a new job and went into rent arrears. Ms Lee has since found another job but is angry that the company has been able to avoid paying her the money, despite the employment tribunal, coun- ty court ruling and visits from bailiffs. She added: “The sting in the tail is that they are still trading. It’s disgusting. They are driving around like they don’t have a care in the world.”


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