Crooked Droitwich dentists still running Midland practices

Left: Ikhlaq Hussain and Jaspal Bachada.

Be careful which dentist you choose.

Work done in private practises can be sub-standard.

Best to 'buy British' when choosing a dentist.

The Sunday Mercury reports- TWO crooked dentists jailed for defrauding patients out of £90,000 are still profiting from the profession because of a legal loophole, it was claimed last night.

Ikhlaq Hussain and Jaspal Bachada, duped dental customers in Droitwich, Worcestershire, into paying inflated charges and then tried to cover up their scam by destroying records.

Hussain, 38, from Alum Rock, was jailed for 30 months last week for conspiracy to defraud, while Bachada, 37 and from Stourbridge, was caged for 20 months.

But the Sunday Mercury has learned that the conmen could still be involved in the ownership of up to TEN other Midland practices, despite being locked up.

A spokesman for the NHS Counter Fraud Service said Bachada and Hussain could still legally run private practices despite their convictions.

“Private dentistry is clearly outside the NHS. The General Dental Council would have to be in charge of monitoring their future activities,” he said.

“Potentially they could have private practices up and running at the moment.

‘‘The Primary Care Trust can suspend their contracts and remove them from the register, but we can’t stop them running private clinics.”

A spokeswoman for the General Dental Council said: “Both these men have been suspended and now the criminal trial is finished there will be an investigation,” she said. “We don’t have information on who owns private practices.” Read more

English Defence League scrap Walsall protest, plan new Birmingham march

The English Defence League has dropped its plans to demonstrate against a mosque in a Midland town The Birmingham Mail reports.

The controversial group had arranged to march through Walsall on June 19 to oppose proposals to convert a disused warehouse into an Islamic place of worship.

The scheme, put forward by the town’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, has been rejected.

The group is currently appealing against the decision.


And EDL spokesman Steve Simmons said their action had been “postponed” for “research to be carried out into the area’s Muslim population”. But he warned that a planned protest in July against mosque plans in Dudley was still going ahead. And he added that the group was also looking at returning to Birmingham with a protest in Alum Rock “sometime in the summer”. Read more






Left: Wright Road, Alum Rock 1980.











Below: Alum Rock 2005

Alum Rock husband jailed for terror campaign against wife

Left Toquir Farooq of Alum Rock; Double arson, threats to kill, criminal damage and goldfish murder. Got off lucky with four and a half years. Was the 6 months for the goldfish? Some people!

The Birmingham Mail reports:

A BIRMINGHAM man who carried out a “vindictive and spiteful” campaign against his estranged wife, including setting fire to cars outside the house where she was living, is starting a four-and a-half-year jail sentence.

During an orgy of damage Toquir Farooq also threatened to kill his wife of five years, Zaine Ahmed, ransacked the former matrimonial home and killed her pet goldfish.

Birmingham Crown Court Judge Mayo told him: “I have to sentence you for offences which took place in May last year as part of a campaign to victimise and terrify your wife and her immediate family.