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- appeal reaches a phenomenal £8,600 — as three plucky local lads walk to Wembley and give the fund a £3,000 boost.- — — page 3


A call goes out for help in stamping out vandalism at Sabden Football Club.


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An era ends as a family sawmill which has been trading since the turn of the century closes. ^ ^ M P a g e S


A drink-driver who is described as a menace to other road users has been given a four-month prison sentence. bhhh—


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THE murderer, Javed


- Iqbal, and (below) bis victim, Sb aheed a Bi, whom he strangled


L i f e s e n t e n c e i n ‘ b u r n e d b o d y ’ m u r d e r c a s e


THE unfaithful husband who str­ angled his eight months pregnant wife before hacking her body to pieces and trying to burn them around the Ribble Valley was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday. Father-of-two Javed


The accused worked for M. M. Taxis, St James’s Streot, Burnley, and had been married to his wife, Shaheeda Bi, aged 22, for six years.


loyal and blameless wife,” said Mr Peter Openshaw QC (prosecuting). The couple lived with


Iqbal’s elderly mother and had a daughter of four and a two-year-old son.


Iqbal started an affair with


Iqbal (26), of Milner- Street, Burnley, put the remains of his wife in his bloodstained white Toyota car and took them to different sites in the Ribble Valley. His grisly crime was dis­


covered by horrified fire­ fighters when they turned up to put out the blazes.


At Preston Crown Court,


Iqbal pleaded gu ilty to murder. Iqbal had been having an


affair with a Nelson woman and had met regularly at a house in Clitheroc.


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Council could be sued over


CCTV fiasco


A DRAMATIC new twist in the CCTV fiasco could see Ribble Valley Borough Council being


sued and signal the death knell for the Ribble Valley Partnership. The partnership! which


financed the CCTV, has threatened to sue the coun­ cil over its part in the prob­ lem-hit scheme. The announcement was


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A TREASURE trove of antiques found in the home of a Whalley couple has fetched more than £ 1


at a top auction. The collection, which belonged


to the late Alan and Edna Austin, brought twice the expected amount when it came under the hammer at Sotheby’s. The couple ran an antiques


business in Whalley and were also avid private collectors. Boxes of rare and valuable items were found in the couple’s home in King Street following Mrs Austin’s death late last year. Mr Austin died in 1990. The collection included furni­


ture, paintings, ceramics and jew­ ellery, among them several rare


pieces. The Austins, who were said to


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en age of antiques, had accumu­ lated over 1,000 rare and collec­


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table items. The highlight of the three-day


sale, which attracted fierce bid­ ding, was a late 19th century


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ivory and Shibayama decorated elephant, from the Meiji period, which fetched £12,076; an early 19th century set of six botanical plates, which fetched £16,100; and a Napoleonic snuff box, which fetched £4,600, eight times its estimate. Mrs Austin is said to have left


a substantial amount of money to several charities, among them CAFOD, the RNLI and Barna- dos.


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f a s h i o n f l o o r s t o r e


made by partnership chair­ man Mr Don Wilson, who this week branded the scheme


temporarily


defunct. Now the future of the


partnership looks in doubt, too, 18 months after its high-profile launch.,


Ironically, its directors


include Ribble Valley Council chief executive Mr Ossie Hopkins, council leader Coun. Howel Jones and Conservative leader Coun. Chris Holtom. But the council this week


said it was time to look to the future and not dwell on past mistakes.


. The Clitheroe Advertiser


and Times contacted Mr Wilson to ask about the future of the CCTV, follow­ ing the news that the con­ tractor had gone bust. An angry Mr Wilson said


legal action to recoup costs from the council were a pos­ sibility for the partnership.


He said: “The whole legal


position is very messy. I shall be asking the eight partnership directors for a decision on what action is needed with regard to the hard-earned money that has been raised and to


• by Stewart Pimbley


inquire about any possible legal action." He explained th at the


partnership had been charged with raising £80,000 for the scheme, while the council, on the partnership’s behalf, had chosen the contractor and had overseen the scheme’s installation. Mr Wilson said the money


had been wasted, because the scheme did not work and the police were unable to use it for criminal prose­ cutions. The scheme has been


plagued by financial and technological set-backs, but the true extent of the disaster only came to light this week. Mr Wilson explained that


the Home Secretary’s high- profile launch nearly did not take place, because the cameras had not been linked to a monitoring sta­ tion. “Right up to the night


before the launch I was wondering whether to call i t off, with Michael Howard and the Chief Constable on their wayl The whole thing was appalling,’’he said. Other problems included


unsuitability of the con­ tractor, sub-standard tech­


nology, inadequate footage for criminal prosecutions, no monitoring station, no 24-hour coverage, the mushrooming cost of moni­


toring and lack of council consultation with council­ lors and the Ribble Valley Partnership. The chairman admitted


that the partnership would not now be seen in a good light, but said he believed it was time to clear the air. Mr Wilson wants to sal­


vage the CCTV by calling a meeting with councillors and council chiefs. . He said: VThe scheme is discredited. However, I still entertain the hope that we might be able to do some­ thing.” Controversy surrounding


the CCTV — the partner­ ship's flagship project — now leaves a question mark over the organisation’s future. Mr Wilson admitted the


partnership had been dogged by numerous prob­ lems, including finances and the loss of its chief executive, Mr John Hart­ ley.


However, he was trying to


remain optimistic about the partnership's future. He said: "I am not a quit­


ter. It would be nice to say the partnership has done a lot of hard work, such as the planting of the Christ­ mas trees and installation of tourist signs, but any success has been dominated by the failure of the CCTV scheme.” Ribble Valley Council’s acting chief executive, Mr


A TOWN tinder surveillance but not much more


- because its CCTV cameras cannot be ' used to bring court prosecutions i.


John Heap, said there was no denying that mistakes had been made. -


He commented: “The bid


for the funding for the CCTV was put together by council officers. The scheme was a council-led initiative, so naturally the funding came to us.


“There is no denying that


mistakes have been made and we are particularly keen to learn lessons from the experience. Having said that, rather than concen­ trate on what has hap­ pened in the past, surely we should be more concerned with getting the scheme up and running.”


Mr Heap agreed that the


contractors had been unsuitable, but said the firm had been vetted and


appeared to have a good track record.


He said th at there was


always a risk when local authorities employed pri­ vate-sector firms. .


Mr Heap added that the


council would continue to liaise with crime prevention officers on all aspects of the scheme, including the issue of camera footage for prose­ cution.


' He said: "People have to remember that a lot of the footage on any system can­ not be used, simply because it shows no crimes being


committed.” • The question of future


monitoring will be dis­ cussed at a meeting tonight of the council’s Planning and Development Commit-


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A CLITHEROE teenager is believed to be still in hiding with her boyfriend after she fled from an airport terminal to escape an arranged mar­


alarm when he found out what was to happen. The airport police told Naheeda that her boyfriend was still in the country.


A spokesman for Manchester


riage in Pakistan. Naheeda Begum (19), of Brown-


low Street, was due to travel from, Manchester Airport to Islam­ abad, where she thought she was going to marry her boyfriend. However, when Naheeda and her family were at the airport she dis­ covered that she was intended to marry a stranger. Naheeda was met by police and


escorted to the police station, where she was reunited with her boyfriend. They then went into


hiding. Blackburn Police alerted the air­


port police after Naheeda’s boyfriend, Nadeem Haji, of Earl Street, Blackburn, raised the


Police said: "A 19-yeaiK>ld woman was due to fly to Islamabad against her will. She was located 'and spoke to a police officer at the airport. She intimated that she did not want to leave the country.


"She was taken to the police sta­


tion where she met her boyfriend and then she le ft. No further action was taken. It was a family matter.”


The Advertiser and Times spoke


to a relative at the family home, but he said the family did not want to comment.


It is believed Naheeda and her


boyfriend are still in hiding with friends.


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a woman called Farah Ijaz, from Nelson, in 1994, and they regularly met at a friend’s house in Whalley Road, Clitheroe. On the night of the murder in June last year, the court heard, he arrived home in the early hours from taxi dri­ ving and had a blazing and acrimonious row with his wife, who thought he had spent the night with his mistress.


She insisted he gave up his


job, said Mr Richard Hen- riques QC (for Iqbal). "Then followed a very


heated argument indeed. They came to blows. He took her by the throat and strangled her,” he said.


“She seems to have been a The accused then pan­


icked, He took the body to the house in Clithcroe, later dismembering it and cutting off the head with an axe and hacksaw. He put the pieces into bin lin­ ers and hid them under the stairs. ...........................


When his wife’s family


asked where she was, Iqbal had told them she was vis­ iting her sister. "He pre­ tended surprise and con­ cern when it was found she did not go there," said Mr Oponshaw. After cutting up the body,


Iqbal was urged by her family to report his wife’s disappearance to the : police. But the accused had been seen unloading the remains by passers-by in different spots and trying - to bum them with petrol.


His wife’s charred head


was found off the Clitheroe bypass road, a leg was found at the Black Hill pic­ nic spot in Sabden, her torso at Moorcock Hill and her arms and other leg near Newton village........


Her unborn baby died


from oxygen starvation in the womb after its mother


was killed.- Mr Henriques said Iqbal,


THE spot above Sabden where the murder victim’s charred leg was found ,, • ward to the birth of his agree th a t his w ifew a s ALguOt," he said. i..


who kept his head bowed throughout the short hear­ ing, had been looking for-


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third child. The murder loyal and blameless.;He': .. In sentencing-Iqbal, Mr was not pre-meditated. ■ finds i t imp oss ible-to ■ Justice John Kay described


"He does express now his understand what he did i • the murder as horrific and great shame and,would and is overwhelmed, by... a terrible and wicked act..


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