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Jailed: Taxi driver used fake licence to dodge penalty points

December 4, 2015

A taxi driver who used a fake driving licence to avoid incurring penalty points for speeding has been put behind bars.

Afra Sihab, of Apollo Road, Wollescote, Stourbridge, told the authorities he had not been driving his hackney carriage when it was caught speeding on two separate occasions.

Fearing he could be disqualified from driving, he claimed the driver had been a Mohammed Afra Sihab and used a fake driving licence in the same name to accumulate speeding points.

Prosecutor, Mr Robert Edwards told a sentence hearing at Wolverhampton Crown Court that no such person existed.

Sihab, aged 52, was sentenced to eight months in prison and disqualified from driving for 12 months having previously admitted two counts of perverting the course of justice. The father-of-four was also ordered to pay £400 costs.

The court heard at the time of the first speeding offence in June 2009, Sihab was a licensed taxi driver with three points on his genuine driving licence. The cab registered in his name was clocked by a stationary camera travelling at 41mph in a 30mph zone.

Mr Edwards said Sihab returned the penalty notice nominating Mohammed Afra Sihab as the driver. The illicit licence was endorsed with three points and the fee paid.

The second speeding offence, in which Sihab's taxi was clocked doing 38mph in a 30mph zone, unfolded in an identical manner in April 2012.

Mr Edwards explained the authorities eventually caught up with Sihab after he was stopped by West Midlands Police on June 20 this year.

Officers found the fake licence in his car and when they checked the registered address it came back as a property owned by Sihab.

Defending, Alisha Harris, said her client had been trying to turn his life around.

She said: "Having received points on his licence he thought he would lose his licence if he got anymore. He has been told this could be a way of avoiding the points.

"He has expressed a great deal of remorse. He has a mortgage on his property of £401 and has since secured alternative work.

"He is running the Kings fast food shop in Stourbridge and says business is doing well.

"He is frankly mortified as what he has done and his family are ashamed. "

Giving his sentence, Judge Robin Onions, said: "These are offences of the greatest seriousness.

"In my view you do not regret what you have done, you regret the positions you have put yourself in.

"People like you try and avoid justice by deliberate acts of deception will be treated by the courts with some severity. "

source: http://www.expressandstar.com/news/crim ... ty-points/

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

what on earth made him think that a false driving license wouldn't be noticed by the dvla when adding points

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

It seems the DVLA didn't notice and actually endorsed the false document - makes you wonder how they didn't notice.

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

We've one round here running on two licenses, the same photo but with different names and DOB. Of course I've let the Council know.

And, quick as a flash, they have done nothing?

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

PHONE CRIME STOPPERS and leave an anonymous report including his name and address the authorities might pay more attention to that

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

The only reason he got caught was the police stop found the fake license.

Bit of bad luck for him, bit of great luck for society.

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IDFIMH

Police welcome jail sentence for 'web of lies' taxi driver

Police today welcomed the sentencing of a taxi driver who took speeding points on a bogus driving licence - saying his ruse 'unravelled a web of lies and deceit'.

Afra Sihab, of Apollo Road, Wollescote, Stourbridge, was jailed for eight months at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

As police released a picture of the taxi driver, officers said the deception was uncovered following a routine taxi enforcement operation in June this year.

The court heard Sihab told the authorities he had not been driving his hackney carriage when it was caught speeding on two separate occasions.

Fearing he could be disqualified from driving, the court heard he claimed the driver had been a Mohammed Afra Sihab and used a fake driving licence in the same name to accumulate speeding points.

Pc Jason Dooley, from the Camera Enforcement Unit at West Midlands Police, said: "Sihab had applied for a driving licence using a different name and date of birth and then a few years later he applied for another licence which he used for his taxi licence.

"A routine check on his car unravelled a web of lies and deceit and when we visited his address to search for evidence we found that someone had tried to destroy documentation that would prove that he had applied for the bogus licence.

"Fortunately we were able to save the torn documents and we were able to use this to build a case against him.

"Sihab didn’t want to take the speeding fines as he was a taxi driver and he may have thought this would affect his licence but what he did was criminal and now he has lost his livelihood and his liberty."

The 53-year-old had been pulled over by an officer on June 20 and checks revealed that Sihab had been suspended from operating a taxi a few months earlier.

Following a search of his vehicle a driving licence relating to another man was found, with Sihab claiming he was holding it for a friend.

And when the officer investigated further it was revealed that Sihab had applied for a driving licence using a different name and date of birth.

In 2009 and 2012 Sihab’s taxi had been caught speeding in Stourbridge and Halesowen and he had completed his prosecution form using the fake licence - claiming that a different man at his home address had been driving the car.

He was jailed and disqualified from driving for 12 months having previously admitted two counts of perverting the course of justice.

The father-of-four was also ordered to pay £400 costs.

Miss Alisha Harris, defending Sihab, told the court case her client had been trying to turn his life around.

She said: “Having received points on his licence he thought he would lose his licence if he got any more. He has been told this could be a way of avoiding the points.

“He has expressed a great deal of remorse. He has a mortgage on his property of £401 and has since secured alternative work.

“He is running the Kings fast food shop in Stourbridge and says business is doing well.

“He is frankly mortified as what he has done and his family are ashamed."

Giving his sentence to Sihab last Wednesday, Judge Robin Onions, said: “These are offences of the greatest seriousness."

source: http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015 ... xi-driver/

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin