Here's who has been jailed this week at Bradford Crown Court

A FLEEING Audi RS4 driver who struck a car on Leeds Road, Bradford, injuring a couple before crashing into a school has been jailed for 16 months.

Syam Khan was spotted in the unregistered and uninsured vehicle on the city’s Jackson Street at 10.15am on November 28, Bradford Crown Court heard on Thursday.

He accelerated off in the blue car pursued by the police who activated their sirens and blue lights, prosecutor Alisha Kaye said.

Khan did 60mph in a 30 zone and crashed into a VW Golf and a VW Polo on Leeds Road. He lost control of the Audi and ploughed into a school wall on Upper Nidd Street, Bradford Moor.

Khan was stuck in the wreckage for some time but managed to climb out over the passenger seat and run off. He was chased and sprayed with CS gas and then handcuffed in order to apprehend him.

The couple in the Golf were treated for their injuries at Bradford Royal Infirmary. The man suffered pain to his head, shoulder and back and his wife pain down one side of her body. They were still awaiting an insurance claim on their badly damaged car, the court was told.

Khan, 26, of Kimberley Street, Bradford Moor, made no comment when questioned by the police.

He pleaded guilty on Thursday to dangerous driving and driving without insurance and a licence.

Footage was played in court of the pursuit that lasted over a minute until Khan crashed the car.

Miss Kaye asked for forfeiture of the Audi, telling Judge Colin Burn it wasn’t registered to anyone.

She said that in 2016, Khan was sentenced for killing a teenage boy passenger while driving a Golf GTi. Then aged 17, he had fled the scene. She pointed out that he was again at the wheel of a powerful car when he had injured two people.

Ken Green said in mitigation that Khan was remorseful and regretful. A letter handed into court from his wife showed a caring and positive side to him.

The couple had two children with a third on the way.

Khan helped to care for his elderly parents and had suffered a series of close family bereavements that had affected his mental health. He too had written a letter to the court.

Mr Green said he panicked when he saw the blue lights behind him and foolishly drove off. It was fortunate that no one was seriously injured.

Khan, who was sentenced on a video link to HMP Leeds where he was remanded, knew he would receive an immediate prison sentence.

Judge Burn said it was a short but very dangerous piece of driving that injured a husband and wife. It was only short-lived because Kahn crashed into the school wall after hitting their vehicle.

The judge said Khan had a previous conviction dating back to 2016 when he was 17 for a very serious driving offence ‘with tragic consequences.’ This time, he deliberately attempted to drive at speed away from the police. Although the couple weren’t seriously injured, it was an unpleasant experience for them and their car was badly damaged.

Khan hadn’t passed the extended test ordered by an earlier court and so shouldn’t have been driving at all.

He was banned from driving for three years and eight months and until he passes the extended test.

*In April 2016, the Telegraph & Argus reported that Khan, then 19, was locked up for four years after he was convicted at Bradford Crown Court of causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

He was estimated to have been driving at twice the 30mph speed limit when he lost control of a Volkswagen Golf GTi in Gilpin Street, Barkerend, Bradford, at about 11am on September 12, 2014.

He fled the scene as 15-year-old Saliq Malik lay dying in the wreckage - returning only to pick up his mobile phone in a bid to avoid being traced.

Naveed Ansari has been jailed for two-and-a-half years (Image: West Yorkshire Police)

NAVEED ANSARI

A BRADFORD taxi driver who went to meet ‘Poppy aged 13’ equipped with Viagra tablets, condoms and a child’s black playsuit has been jailed for two and a half years.

Naveed Ansari, 46, pretended to be a single man less than half his age when he contacted what he believed was an underage girl on Facebook while married with a family, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Ansari, of Beckside Road, Great Horton, Bradford, engaged in sexualised chat with the decoy child who was an adult member of Net Justice, a group set up to snare internet paedophiles.

Prosecutor Richard Walters said the false child’s profile included a phone number. She accepted Ansari’s friend request and the chat soon moved on to WhatsApp.

Ansari told her he was 20, later revised to 24, and she made it clear that she was 13.

The court heard that his chat was sexualised. He told Poppy she was pretty and beautiful and said he would treat her like a princess.

He asked about the size of her breasts and requested images of her ‘body parts’. Ansari sent a video of him touching his penis and asked for pictures in return, which were declined.

He sought to groom Poppy with presents of a dress, a bra and a teddy bear.

He said he would pick her up from school in his taxi because that would not arouse suspicion.

Then he arranged to meet her in Leeds on October 23 last year. He turned up in the early afternoon with six Viagra tablets, condoms and a child’s black playsuit he had bought the previous day.

“The Crown says that these items leave little doubt about what the defendant’s intentions were,” Mr Walters told the court.

He was met by members of Net Justice who called the police. He was arrested and did not answer any police questions.

An examination of his phone disclosed an image of two boys having sex with a donkey and an image of a man having sex with a chicken.

He went on to plead guilty to attempting to incite a girl aged 13 to engage in sexual activity, between October 15 and 24 last year; attempting to sexually communicate with a child; attempting to travel to meet a child following grooming; making an indecent image and possession of an extreme pornographic image.

Katherine Robinson said in mitigation that Ansari was a man of previous good character who found it very hard to accept the offences he had committed.

The offending was naïve and unsophisticated and represented one piece of conduct.

It was an attempt; there was no real child involved.

Ansari had lost his family and his career as a taxi driver.

Recorder Tahir Khan KC said the offending was so serious that it must be met with an immediate prison sentence.

The decoy had repeatedly said she was 13 and that had not deterred Ansari.

His behaviour ‘wasn’t just talk,’ he wanted to meet up with her and turned up with Viagra, condoms and child’s playsuit.

Despite his guilty pleas, he still continued to deny responsibility for what he did.

Recorder Khan jailed Ansari for 30 months and made a Sexual Harm Prevention Order without limit of time.

He must also sign on the sex offender register, also without limit of time.

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