A 27 year old politics graduate has been handed down a 3 month prison sentence for trying to keep a clean driving licence.
A mobile speed camera caught Ayesha Ahmed speeding twice in 5 minutes as she was driving her BMW car in a 30mph area. On the first occasion she was clocked at 39mph and 40mph on the second.
However, rather than pay the fine and take the points, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how she paid £450 to a “specialist speeding fines lawyer” who would use a legal loophole and keep her driving licence clean.
The Notices of Intended Prosecution (NIPs) were sent to Miss Ahmed but when they were returned they showed that the car was being driven by a different woman at a Walsall address.
Police became suspicious of the details as they discovered that 8 other NIPs had been returned with the Walsall woman and her address being identified as the driver on all occasions.
Miss Ahmed was interviewed by the police over the matter and following her telling the police about the “specialist speeding fines lawyer” she then declared that she had been the victim of a scam.
The police did not believe her version of events and Miss Ahmed found herself standing trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court for perverting the course of justice and was found guilty.
PC Steve Jevons, of the West Midlands Camera Enforcement Unit, said: “[Miss] Ahmed has paid a heavy price for thinking she could lie her way out of speeding offences.
“The jury concluded she was deliberately trying to avoid justice and not, as she claimed, victim of a scam by a bogus lawyer.
“She never met this “legal expert”, didn’t have an address or phone number for him, and paid the money via a third party.
“[Miss] Ahmed was given every opportunity to admit her guilt – an admission that would have spared her a jail term – and even the judge asked if she wanted to proceed to trial in the face of damning evidence.
“It’s a sorry tale. She has no previous convictions but a potentially promising career is now in ruins and all because she wanted to retain a clean licence.”
Other than the 3 month custodial sentence she was also banned from driving for 58 weeks.
