Richard Beech A FAILED businessman become the sixth and final member of an organised crime ring operating in Bradford to be put behind bars this month. Richard Beech was jailed for five years for laundering £5 million of drugs money for the gang. He made frequent trips between his home in Manchester and West Yorkshire to collect and deliver large amounts of cash concealed in hidden compartments under the seats of his specially modified Range Rover. He was labelled the “cash converter and banker” for the organisation led by Rashid Ashraf (also known as Mohammed Rashid) who was jailed for 18 years.
The men jailed this week in Bradford for various offences including robbery, drugs offences and paedophilia THESE are the people who were jailed this week in Bradford for a range of offences including paedophilia, drugs offences and robbery.
THREE men were jailed for their roles in a major organised crime ring operating in the Bradford area. Father of three Yaser Nazir was imprisoned for five years and three months after the police seized £1.214 million of cocaine and heroin when they busted the operation. Nazir, 38, of Lindley Road, Little Horton, Bradford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine. Prosecutor Alasdair Campbell said he was involved with the gang on March 5 and 19 this year.
She and her husband had bought the samurai sword as an ornament.
But Miriam Carrington told yesterday how she ended up using it as a razor-sharp weapon when masked burglars raided her home.
The 56-year-old, who knew how to hold the 3ft sword only from watching the film Kill Bill, wielded it to such effect that one of the burglars almost bled to death after he grabbed the blade, which sliced into his hands.
A judge backed her actions, saying it was self-defence.
Mrs Carrington and her husband Martin, 52, bought the weapon for £80 on the internet ten years ago because they are interested in Japanese culture.
Rehan Malik A BURGLAR ended up suffering life-threatening injuries when he grabbed the blade of an ornamental Samurai sword the householder was defending herself with. Rehan Malik was one of three masked intruders who smashed their way into the property in Avondale Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, in the early hours of October 25, Bradford Crown Court heard. Malik, 23, of Wensleydale Road, Thornbury, Bradford, was trying to make off with an Audi S3 but it got stuck in the garage doors. As he and his two accomplices tried to free the vehicle, he grabbed at the sword the woman was pointing at him to defend herself.
Rehan Malik A BURGLAR suffered life-threatening injuries when he grabbed the blade of an ornamental Samurai sword the householder was defending herself with. Rehan Malik was one of three masked intruders who smashed their way into the property in Avondale Road, Shipley, Bradford, in the early hours of October 25, Bradford Crown Court heard today. Malik, 23, of Wensleydale Road, Thornbury, Bradford, was trying to make off with an Audi S3 but it got stuck in the garage doors. As he and his two accomplices tried to free the vehicle, he grabbed at the sword the woman was pointing at him to defend herself.