A killer driver locked up for nine months for mowing down a young dad shouted to the judge: "There's no justice."
Kesar Parvaiz Shaffi yelled from the dock after being sentenced for the horror smash which saw his speeding sports car mount the kerb and slam into 25-year-old Mazhar Iqbal.
The judge heard how Shaffi, 20, lost control of the Toyota MR2 as he drove at about 50mph in a built-up 30mph zone in Bradford. He fled from the scene on Whetley Hill but later gave himself up to police.
Prosecuting at the city's Crown Court yesterday, Ian Clark said the accident occurred at about 9pm on November 14, 2001, as Shaffi drove home from his father's garage business with a friend.
Dressed in a black suit, Shaffi, of Highfield Crescent, Bingley, sat impassively as Mr Clark recounted the night's events. He said Shaffi lost control of the car as he sped round a bend by Grandage Terrace, mounted the kerb and hit a garden wall.
Mr Clark said: "The momentum took the car forwards, spinning across the pavement where it struck Mazhar Iqbal. He was a 25-year-old working married man with a young baby."
After the smash, Shaffi and his friend left the scene but he went to a police station later that night. At first he told officers he was going about 35mph but later admitted it could have been about 50mph.
Robin Frieze, mitigating, called Shaffi - who admitted causing death by dangerous driving - "a very decent young man" who had made a "very serious but very brief mistake".
Judge Peter Benson accepted Shaffi was in a state of shock when he left the accident scene and had been tormented by the incident ever since.
He said Shaffi's remorse was genuine and added: "You have had a miserable time over the last 18 months."
But he described his driving as "irresponsible in the extreme" and said Mr Iqbal's family would be "blighted forever".
Shaffi was sentenced to nine months in youth custody - of which he will serve half - and was banned from driving for four years.
As he was led to the cells, he waved to his family and said: "Don't worry about me."
He then turned to the court and shouted: "There's no justice."
After the case Mr Iqbal's wife Safina sobbed as she said: "He was a quiet and very loving man."
Speaking of the sentence, she said: "I thought it was very short. I did want him to be locked up for what happened."
But she added: "I do not hate him. He was just a young guy messing around on the road - but the consequences have been terrible."
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