Dentist from Alum Rock denies 5 years of fraud and overcharging patients

Left Alum Rock home of Ikhlaq Hussain.

Alum Rock is One of several no go zones for white British people in Birmingham. Other dangerous area's (especially after dark) include Handsworth, Sparkhill, Hockley, and Lozelles.


From the Sunday Mercury

A dentist who helped to run an "empire" of dental practices in Worcestershire has gone on trial accused of taking part in a five-year campaign to defraud the NHS. Birmingham Crown Court heard that Ikhlaq Hussain, who denies two charges of conspiracy to defraud, misled patients at a practice in Droitwich into paying inflated prices.

Opening the case against Hussain, prosecutor Timothy Hannam said a second dentist, 36-year-old Jaspal Singh Bachada, of Redlake Drive, Stourbridge, had pleaded guilty in relation to events at the Droitwich surgery. Addressing jurors at the start of a six-week trial, Mr Hannam said Bachada and Hussain had bought the practice in Blackfriars Avenue, Droitwich, in March 2002. Read more