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OXFORD CABBIE CAUGHT DRINK DRIVING AFTER A420 CRASH BANNED FOR A YEAR
An out-of-work cabbie was caught over the drink-drive limit after crashing his Audi, a court heard. The Oxford Mail reports that Amir Jasimi, 45, called recovery mechanics when he crashed the silver A6 on the A420 on January 20, damaging the vehicle’s undercarriage. Concerned about the position of the car in a layby, the recovery mechanic asked police for their help. When officers arrived they could smell alcohol on Jasimi’s breath, breathalysed him and found he was over the limit.
Prosecutor Scott Forman told Oxford Magistrates’ Court that a sample taken at the police station showed he had 42mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath, just above the legal limit of 35mcgs.
Appearing before the justices, Jasimi, from Oxford, plead- ed guilty to drink driving. He had no previous convictions.
Phil Kouvaritakis, mitigating, said his client had held down a taxi licence for nine years but was not working when he crashed. He had been on his way to Aldi and, after two drinks, did not believe he was over the limit. He was no longer working as a taxi driver and was claiming universal credit. “Having been a taxi driver for such a long time that’s where he feels his skill is,” his solicitor said. Jasimi was fined £80, ordered to pay £79 in costs and surcharge and banned from the roads for a year.
DERBY CABBIE COKE DEALER TOLD TO USE HOME TO PAY BACK DIRTY MONEY
A drug dealing cabbie who hid cocaine down his pants must release equity in a house he owns to pay back the thousands of pounds he made from his ill-gotten gains The Derby Telegraph reports that a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing, at Derby Crown Court, heard how Casey Johnson benefitted to the tune of £12,522.71 from his criminality. Johnson, 29, has more than £20,000 to his name and so will have to hand over a substantial chink of that to pay back what he made selling Class A sub- stances. It will likely mean either remortgaging or selling the property. And if he doesn’t do that by May 9, he could face a nine-month jail sentence. At his sentencing hearing in January 2021, prosecutor Mrs Hardy said police were alerted by members of the public that Johnson was selling wraps of drugs outside a pub in Dronfield, in June 2018. She said officers approached and searched him and found balloons, gas and bags contain- ing traces of white power on him. Miss Hardy said they arrested him and took him to Chesterfield police station
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where they found eight bags of the Class A substance in the vehicle and more cocaine down his underpants. She said: “The defendant was in pos- session of two mobile phones which were found to contain messages con- sistent that he had been supplying
drugs for around a year, although the prosecution accepted he was selling at a street level to friends. Johnson pleaded guilty to supplying and possessing Class A drugs. He was handed a two-year jail term, suspended for two years.
AYR CABBIE CAUGHT WITH 1,200 DIS- TURBING CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
A cabbie has been caught distributing child porn. According to the Daily Record, Paul McDonald, 48, from Ayr, admitted distributing indecent photos of kids on November 8, 2020, as well as being in possession of indecent images of children between January 2015 and November 2020. McDonald admitted his guilt when he recently appeared at Ayr Sheriff Court. Foul images depicted kids as young as five-years-old. Depute Fiscal Mhairi Mair told the court: “Police Scotland received intel
that devices were being used to send indecent images of children. On November 9, 2020, police searched the home and two devices were found to contain indecent images of children, links of which which had then been sent on. A computer tower was found to have 1,284 moving images, 727 were within category A - the most severe. And 415 were coded as category B, and 142 as category C. Sentencing for McDonald was deferred for the court to obtain social work reports. McDonald was placed on the sex offenders register.
MARCH 2022
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