Enriching Nottingham 'barrister', Omar Khan, jailed for peddling cocaine to undercover police

The arrest of Omar Khan, who 'worked' for Nottingham's The Johnson Partnership, came as police busted a drugs ring in the city. Nearly two kilos of high-strength cocaine was seized. He was sentenced to 3 years in jail.

Co-accused Nazaquat Ali, who provided a safe house for the cocaine at a house in Chard Street, New Basford, was jailed for five years today.

Albert Dibra, 38, of Joyce Avenue, Sherwood, said to have had a leading role in the enterprise, was sent to prison for seven-and-a-half years.

Nottingham Crown Court heard he had established the safe house and taken delivery of a quantity of cocaine.

Drugs courier Erlin Manahasa, 28, of no fixed address, was locked up for four-half years for delivering the cocaine.

All four men admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine between October 1 and December 1 last year.

The court was told they were involved in a significant conspiracy to supply the drug in the Nottingham area.

Dibra was operating a phone line contacted by undercover police. He contacted his friend, Khan, who met the officers with cocaine.

Sentencing the defendants, Judge Michael Stokes QC said: "You four defendants were involved, to a greater or lesser degree, in a serious conspiracy to supply cocaine in this city.

"It is clear, on the evidence, that on at least two occasions significant quantities of that drug with a high content uncut were delivered, seemingly from the south of England into Nottingham.

"The police, who have done an excellent job in this case, observed and waited until the second delivery to restock arrived and then they swooped and found 1.3 kilos of cocaine of an 88 percent purity. The fact that restocking took place at the point that it did is an indication of the nature and extent of the conspiracy."

He told Khan, who has lost his job and career as a result of the charge, his case in many respects was a tragedy.

Adrian Langdale said, in mitigation, his client had taken cocaine recreationally and got into debt. He was involved in one or two deals in November and they were isolated incidents.

Describing the case as an absolute tragedy, he added that Khan was a man who had fallen from the greatest height possible and he was acutely embarrassed and ashamed.

Digby Johnson, a partner in the Long Row business, told the Nottm Post, after Khan pleaded guilty last month, of his betrayal.

"I feel, in a sense, I've been done over, really," he said.

"It is a very salutary reminder for anyone involved in the law that a fall from grace can be a very catastrophic thing to happen. He was someone you thought you knew reasonably well. But you had someone there who has something going on that you did not know about – something that was so devastating."

Mr Johnson recalled: "Omar would talk about the ventures he had. There was nothing that would lead you to think he would have been involved in anything illegal."

Khan, 31, of William Street, Huddersfield, initially worked in the law firm's call centre.

According to the Law Society, he was admitted as a solicitor in 2012. Mr Johnson said Khan qualified as a barrister in November but continued as a solicitor in the magistrates' courts.

He did a phenomenal number of hours," he said. "He was really hard-working and keen to impress."

There had been no mention of drugs, said Mr Johnson, let alone any involvement in them.

"I'd rather be talking about him having made a flying start in Huddersfield, not about this."


Comment:

We will be keeping our eyes on this as it raises more possible corruption issues with the police.

I wonder if this would have happened had our borders not ben wide open to let this scum into the country in the first place?

Remember to vote BNP and for an EU exit in May/June - otherwise more of this filth will be coming into our country.

Rapist Taxi driver, Shapoor Azimi, jailed for 15 years.

A jury found Shapoor Azimi guilty of attacking a 22-year-old student in the back of his cab after picking her up in Nottingham city centre.

And sentencing the 37-year-old cabbie, Judge Timothy Spencer raised concerns over how he was allowed to work on the streets of Nottingham - after he had been in trouble twice before for kerb-crawling, in 2011 and 2006.
After the hearing, a Nottingham City Council spokesman said his previous caution and conviction for kerb-crawling should have been spotted and an investigation had been launched.
The married defendant, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, picked up his victim in the city after a night out and raped her in the back seat of his private-hire car in Sneinton.
He faced two rape charges concerning the same incident, but the jury cleared him of the first allegation and convicted him on the second on Monday.
Azimi, of Chadwick Road, had denied both allegations, claiming the victim had sexually assaulted him.

Judge Spencer told Azimi, who had his head bowed in the dock, that he had brought depravation on his family and himself.
"On that night, on October 17, you were working as a taxi driver in this city," he said. "You were, in my judgement, preying on young women. One of whom was the victim.
"You, in my judgement, were a chancer. You spotted your chance. She filled at least some of your desires.
"In particular she was clearly in a state of disorientation through alcohol and you decided, in my judgement, that she was prey for your sexual desires. Somewhere in that journey you decided rather than take her home, as your duty and obligation was to do, you were going to stop and take advantage of her."

A manager at the company where Azimi worked had given a statement to the prosecution that said all drivers were checked by taxi licensing.
"As a business we don't get directly involved in those checks," it read. "We get updated on the results."
However, prosecutor Gordon Aspden told the judge it appeared those checks had not been carried out in this case.
Judge Spencer said: "I know not if he was checked by taxi licensing, whether he withheld his relevant conviction or caution from taxi licensing, or whether they checked independently against records that must have been available to them.
"That conviction and caution reveal a situation where this man was wholly unsuitable to be driving a taxi anywhere and certainly within this city. It seems to me if the authority did carry out any checks they need to look carefully at the system and go to independent records, which I assume are available to them by going to the police."
A City Council spokesman said: "This driver applied for a licence with us in 2008. His earlier caution and conviction undoubtedly should have been spotted in our background checks and acted on and we are very sorry that this didn't happen.
"If we were presented with the same situation today, our procedures have improved sufficiently for us to be confident that he would be identified as a person who was not fit and proper to be a taxi driver, and so not given a licence. Our priority is to protect the public.
"We now demand higher standards of drivers and if there is the slightest doubt about a person's suitability, we err on the side of caution and don't issue a licence. "We now carry out DBS checks every year rather than every three and our licensing team is now co-located with the police licensing team where intelligence sharing and closer working will allow issues like this to be identified and acted on."

Nottingham - St. George Parade commences at the Goose Fair site from around 11:30am Saturday 23rd April

Third individual, Shomsu Miah, aged 44, jailed in Nottingham slavery case

A third person has been jailed following the first case to be tried in the East Midlands under new Modern Slavery Act legislation.

Shomsu Miah, aged 44, of Russell Street, Forest Fields, had previously admitted being one of three people to force a Hungarian woman into prostitution while she was kept against her will at properties in Nottingham in August and September last year. 

Hungarian nationals Istvan Vinter, 57, and Maria Gaspar, 23, were jailed for eight and six years respectively at Nottingham Crown Court last month.

Appearing at the same court today (Friday 8 April), Miah was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.

The woman, and another who had been sold for a sham marriage in London, had been trafficked to the UK by Vinter and Gaspar, who had promised them work in a hotel.

Once in the UK, the women, who did not speak English, were then ‘sold’ to buyers or made to work as prostitutes, Miah assisted by facilitating accommodation in Nottingham and working with Vinter and Gaspar in attempting to sell one of the victims in a sham marriage. Miah had previously travelled to Hungary to meet Vinter and Gaspar before the trafficking into the UK took place.

The victim in Nottingham was forced to have sex with men and had her identity documents taken from her so she could not flee.

She was also offered for marriage to one man and even taken to a nightclub where she was offered for sex to another.

Nottinghamshire Police found her on 17 September at a property in Woodborough Road. Detectives also travelled to Hungary to interview the other victim, who had managed to escape and return home. 

Miah, Vinter and Gaspar were charged with conspiracy to arrange or facilitate travel of another person with a view to their exploitation under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration to a member state.

Detective Inspector Justine Wilson, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: "Individuals such as Miah are providing a market for the traffickers in the UK, and are prepared to take advantage their victims’ vulnerability by holding them against their well or profiting from them by forcing them into sexual exploitation.

"While Vinter and Gaspar were the ones to traffick the woman into the country, the fact that Miah had previously met them and then colluded with them to carry out this appalling deception was damning in the eyes of the court.

"Hopefully, these sentences, totalling more than 16 years will send out a message to traffickers and to those UK nationals who facilitate this trade that the police and the courts will stop at nothing to ensure these crimes are properly and effectively dealt with through the criminal justice system."

DI Wilson said: "Once again, I would like to praise the courage of the victims in this case who have been through an utterly horrible ordeal and yet returned to the UK to give evidence against those that had exploited them. I would also like to recognise and praise the investigating officers in this case for their care and professional dedication in supporting the victims and witnesses."

Nottingham City Council wrongly fined driver and towed car - and it could have happened to many more

Robin Hood Street where the poor are being robbed by the rich

Thirteen motorists were fined a total of £1,400 for parking on Robin Hood Street, and nine returned to find their vehicles had vanished. Nottingham City Council put temporary 'no parking' signs onto the street, next to Victoria Park, and towed away cars to make way for maintenance and line painting. But insurance broker Richard Turton (pictured), who was one of the drivers penalised, appealed against his fine and, following a five-month battle, independent adjudicator the Traffic Penalty Tribunal ruled the signs had been wrongly used by the council.
 However he was the only motorist refunded. The council said it had no obligation to notify drivers if they could successfully appeal and insisted that the signs were approved by the Department for Transport. Mr Turton, 55, said: "On that day, last June, it was chucking it down and I parked next to Victoria Park. "I went to collect my car at 5.30pm and it was gone. 
At first I questioned if I was in the correct place but then I thought it had been stolen. When I parked up I did not see any restrictions." On the same day nine cars were towed away – with a £140 recovery cost for the owners – and four were given on-street fines of £35 each. Mr Turton found his car in the city pound around the corner. 
 He said: "I appealed against it but the council rejected it and we went back and forth several times and in the end I went back to the independent tribunal and they supported me. "I laugh about it now but I could have cried at the time. "I did say to the council that they should let the other motorists know but they told me it wasn't their responsibility and they were under no obligation to do so. "I am happy with my outcome but want others to know they can get their money back. It is a shame the council did not spot their error and tell people." 

 The authority was ordered to refund Mr Turton by the Traffic Penalty Tribunal. Adjudicator Gillian Ekins said: "I find that there is no evidence that the restriction or prohibition was required to come into force without delay. "On the contrary, the works were described as maintenance. "I find that council were wrong to seek to implement the prohibition of stopping by way of a Notice pursuant to section 14 (2). "It is only in the case of an emergency that a temporary Traffic Regulation Notice can be issued. "There is certainly no evidence produced by the council to indicate the situation was an emergency. "I find that even if the council was entitled to implement such notice, it would not have applied to the location where this vehicle was parked because it was not in a no waiting or limited waiting restriction. "It is undoubtedly distressing for a motorist to return to where they had parked their vehicle and to find it is not there. In this case, Mr Turton should not have been put through that ordeal." 
 A spokesman from Nottingham City Council said that the authority "did not accept" the adjudicator's ruling but was not going to contest it. He said 18 signs went up at 11.30am on June 1 and were removed at 9.30am on June 3. 
Work was carried out on June 2 to provide new signs and lines for a residents' parking scheme for the Stonebridge area. "We don't accept that the wrong signage was used," he said. "The 'No Stopping' sign is Department for Transport approved and is clearer to motorists than No Waiting or No Loading signs which we used to use for temporary restrictions like this. "While we don't agree with the adjudicator's decision, we are not challenging it and accordingly refunded the fine in this case." 
 He added: "It does not necessarily follow that an adjudicator would rule in the same way if other motorists fined at that time appealed, since the details, such as how long and where they were parked, may be different and would be judged on their own merits. "The other drivers chose to pay the fine given the circumstances relevant to them. "It's for motorists to decide whether to pay or appeal a fine. Only one motorist appealed in this instance."

Opinions from 'the people' ...

There have probably been thousands of illegal fines given for parking. Councils break their own rules daily and wardens lie in their teeth just to get one over on the motorist. It appears to be a game to many.

 I recently appealed a fine on Cliff Road that was given in confusing circumstances ... so confusing it confused me despite the fact I live in the road! It catches MANY people each day and must be a traffic wardens Birthday getting assigned the road! The council did drop the fine (I think because it's clear how confusing the parking lines are and a tribunal would agree), but they certainly made sure they covered their backsides in the reply letter and made it clear I was in the wrong (despite canceling the ticket on the grounds they knew I could probably win an appeal). It's their attitude then that's the problem.

 It's absolutely outrageous and a total scandal that the city council is not legally obliged to notify people that they have illegally extorted money from them, and compensate them immediately. It demonstrates once again who makes the laws in this country, and for whose benefit those laws are made (clue: it isn't you or me)

 Well done Mr Turton. You have proved yet again that there are those at Loxley House that are far happier administering their version of the Law than following correct procedures themselves. It is all down to one of the oldest lusts of all . . .POWER!

Typical attitude from the council, always refusing to believe they can do anything wrong. You've been proven wrong by an independent adjudicator yet you still don't accept it. How about having some humility, admit you got it wrong and apologise to those people who have been inconvenienced?
Why the council thinks it has no obligation to notify drivers who they have conned is a mystery to me. TO THE COUNCIL:YOU ILLEGALLY REMOVED USERS VEHICLES AND MADE THEM PAY TO GET THEIR OWN VEHICLES BACK: THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS REFUND THE ILLEGALLY TAKEN MONEY. ARROGANT IDIOTS
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Or so they think !!

whats up with no parking signs ? this council has a lot to learn about parking enforcement and signage, its no good removing the clutter joco, its there for a purpose to give the motorist some sort of chance in this anti car minefield, i love the way the city council did not accept the courts view, its a law unto its self,

No surprise from this money grabbing, hate the motorist city council.

Bus assault suspect

Police want to speak to this man after assault on Nottingham City Transport bus
Do you recognise this man? 

 Police want to speak to the man pictured in connection with an assault which took place on a Nottingham bus. 

 The incident happened on a Nottingham City Transport bus on Wednesday, March 2. 

The offence is alleged to have taken place while the vehicle was parked in Lower Parliament Street.
Anyone who recognises the man is asked to call Nottinghamshire Police on 101 quoting incident number 171 of 2 March 2016.

Casuals and Patriots to unite in protest against ISIS and ANTIFA - June 11th

Casuals and Patriots will stand in unity in Nottingham against Islamism and Antifa. 

This we will an event where we need all our lads from all over England to join us in Notts. 

Calling all mobs, old and young to join us. 

11.06.16 : March On As One.