Birmingham street robber jailed for five years

A sentence to fit the crime, if this kind of sentencing was more consistant street robberies would undoubtably go down.

The Birmingham Mail reports - A STREET robber who stole £500 and a mobile phone was jailed for five years and three months at Birmingham Crown Court.

Ahmed Abdullah, 21, of Westminster Road, pleaded guilty to robbery.

The robbery took place on February 17 last year when Abdullah followed a man who had won £500 in cash out of a bookmakers in Heathfield Road, Handsworth.

Abdullah and a second man asked the victim for money before knocking him to the ground and stealing his winnings and a mobile phone.

Abdullah was arrested a short while later.

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Gangsters paradise

Left: Pakistani Muslim women.

Pakistani Muslim women are closely guarded via an almost medievil zeal of chastity and abstinence (fair enough).

White British women (prostitutes or otherwise) different story.

Muslim Robbers jailed for targeting Midlands prostitutes

The Birmingham Mail reports - A GANG of masked robbers who subjected prostitutes working in their homes in Birmingham to terrifying ordeals have begun long jail sentences.

The raids on the victims were carried out after one of the team posed as a client.

Ashan Ramzan, 29, of York Road, Hall Green, who had previously been found guilty of two charges of robbery, was jailed for ten years.

Zaheer Ali, 21, of Russell Road, Hall Green, who had admitted two robbery charges, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment while Mohammed Umar, 22, who had been convicted of robbery, was given a six-year sentence.

Judge Murray Creed said: “These offences were undoubtedly terrifying. Both the victims spoke about covered faces.

“They were pre-planned and telephone calls were made ahead to victims. The defendants who went to the property, in each instance, called in a team.

“These were targeted victims and the offences were committed in a group in someone’s home.

“Cash was taken at a time of the day when it was known there was likely to be cash on the premises.”

James Dunstan, prosecuting at Birmingham Crown Court, said the first victim worked from a city centre address advertising as Oriental Waterbed Massage.

He said one of the team made an appointment with the woman but once inside produced a knife, telling the victim, who was with a friend, to get on the floor and not look at him.

Three others who had their faces covered, including Ali and Ramzan, then came in and forced the two women into a bedroom where they were shut inside a wardrobe, with a sofa put up against the door.

Around £600 was stolen along with three mobile phones and the following day the gang used a similar method to rob a 40-year-old Korean prostitute.

Mr Dunstan said that she pleaded for her life, had a knife placed to her throat and that the robbers netted around £2,300.

Dean Kershaw, for Ali, said that he had run up gambling debts and that he was extremely remorseful.

Dentists jailed for fraud against patients and NHS at Droitwich practice

Left: Ikhlaq Hussain, 38, and Jaspal Singh Bachada.

Patients defrauded by Asian dentists in the West Midlands.

Vote BNP for more indiginous health professionals, and an end to loopholes in the system.

The Birmingham Mail reports - Two dentists, from the West Midlands, have been jailed for fraud against patients and the NHS.

Ikhlaq Hussain, 38, of College Road, Alum Rock, Birmingham, was sentenced to 30 months and Jaspal Singh Bachada, 37, of Redlake Drive, Stourbridge, was jailed for 20 months.

The men were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court by Judge Robert Jukes on Tuesday, who estimated the value of the fraud to be around £25,000.

Hussain was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud by a jury at the court in July, while Bachada pleaded guilty to the same charge at an earlier hearing.

They were charged after a complex inquiry by the NHS Counter Fraud
Service into allegations that patients at Droitwich Spa Dental Practice in Worcestershire were tricked into paying inflated charges.

The court heard that patients at the Blackfriars Lane practice were led to believe they were being treated on the NHS but were charged private dental rates.

Hussain and Bachada bought the Droitwich practice in 2002 but it is now under new ownership. The pair own a string of dental practices in the West Midlands, Scotland, Merseyside and Warwickshire.

A spokesman for the NHS Counter Fraud Service said 2,500 patients came forward to assist the investigation after whistleblowers raised concerns about Hussain and Bachada.

Steve McKenzie, dental fraud team manager at the NHS CFS, said: "We are pleased with this outcome after a very long and extensive investigation by the NHS Counter Fraud Service.

"All suspicions of fraud against the NHS that are reported to us will be followed up. Wherever appropriate we will investigate and press for prosecution and the strongest sanctions against offenders. We commend all the whistleblowers who came forward."

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