A Keighley father-of-two has admitted involvement in a pirate radio station. Shabir Zaman Qamar, 32, pleaded guilty at Bradford magistrates court this week to using Asian Paradise Radio for wireless telegraphy without a licence.

The court heard the radio station had operated illegally in the Bradford area for more than a decade. Magistrates were told how signals from an illegal frequency were picked up last June from a transmitter at an unoccupied house linked to an attic studio in Bradford. When officers from the Radio Communications Agency swooped on the house they found a man believed to be one of the station's presenters.

The case against Qamar, of Bradford Road, was adjourned until December 16. He was granted unconditional bail.

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