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Millions of people up and down the county get behind the wheel of their cars[1] every single day to make their journeys to wherever they need to be.
None can imagine that that journey could be the last they take. Every week, dangerous drivers in our ar…
She was crossing the road with an adult at a pedestrian crossing on King Cross Street near the junction with Park Road when she was hit by a black Vauxhall Corsa.
She has been taken to hospital for emergency treatment and police say she is in a critical condition.
A PCSO[1] on patrol came across the incident at 11.09am.
The road is shut
The road was shut for investigations and an air ambulance was seen landing in nearby People’s Park.
The driver of the Corsa – a 53-year-old man – has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Anyone who saw what happened or the movements of the car in the time leading up to the collision – particularly anyone with relevant dashcam footage – is asked to contact roads policing officers via 101, quoting log 715 of July 8 or reference 132302379650.
Jams were being reported in and around Halifax[2] town centre while the road was closed.
She was crossing the road with an adult at a pedestrian crossing on King Cross Street near the junction with Park Road when she was hit by a black Vauxhall Corsa.
She has been taken to hospital for emergency treatment and police say she is in a critical condition.
A PCSO[1] on patrol came across the incident at 11.09am.
The road is shut
The road was shut for investigations and an air ambulance was seen landing in nearby People’s Park.
The driver of the Corsa – a 53-year-old man – has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Anyone who saw what happened or the movements of the car in the time leading up to the collision – particularly anyone with relevant dashcam footage – is asked to contact roads policing officers via 101, quoting log 715 of July 8 or reference 132302379650.
Jams were being reported in and around Halifax[2] town centre while the road was closed.
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Safdar Ali, aged 37 and of Highfield Terrace, was today (Monday) sentenced to more than three years in prison for causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Police had received reports of a BMW which had failed to stop after a crash and had then been involved in a further collision on Shroggs Road in Halifax on November 8, 2021.
Officers attended the scene and, after speaking with witnesses, found Ali hiding in bushes nearby.
Safdar Ali
Enquiries established Ali’s vehicle had struck a VW Tiguan in Wood Lane – causing significant damage to his car and the Tiguan – and then overtaken other vehicles before going onto Shroggs Road where it collided with a Ford Focus and a Mini.
Ali, who police said appeared to be under the influence of drugs, was arrested and denied that he was the driver of the vehicle.
He was taken to hospital where he refused to give a blood sample of blood.
Further enquiries established that Ali was the driver of the BMW at the time of both collisions, and he was subsequently charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Ali was sentenced for both dangerous driving offences and failing to provide a specimen and was jailed for a total of three years and 32 weeks.
Speaking after the sentencing, Detective Sergeant Kris Roberts, of Calderdale District CID, said: “Ali’s appalling driving left three people needing treatment for their injuries. These included the mother of a young child, whose injuries were so serious that she was unable to care for her child and still suffers from the effects of this incident.
“Dangerous driving will not be tolerated in West Yorkshire and those who choose to engage in this behaviour can expect to find themselves brought before the courts, and in this case, sent to prison for a significant period of time.”
Anyone with concerns or information about crime in their area can contact police by calling 101 or using the live chat facility on the West Yorkshire Police website.
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Mariwan Mustafa, aged 33, of Ovenden Way in Halifax was found guilty of facilitating illegal immigration and was today (Wednesday) sentenced to two years and six months in prison.
Mustafa was part of an organised crime gang whose activities were uncovered following a four-year investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
In the early hours of March 11, 2019, NCA officers watched as members of the gang drove their VW Touran people carrier to rendezvous with a lorry driven by Romanian national Marinel Danut Palage, 31, at an industrial estate in West Sussex.
Mariwan Mustafa, from Halifax
The truck had arrived in Portsmouth on a ferry from Caen in northern France the previous evening and was carrying a legitimate load of spinach from Spain.
But it was also carrying at least three people who had been brought to the UK illegally.
In total, the gang was sentenced to 26 years in jail but the alleged ringleader of the crime group remains at large and is now wanted along with another gang member by the National Crime Agency.
Goran Jalal, aged 37 and from Bradford, is suspected of organising crossings, while Hemin Ali Salih, aged 37 and from Manchester, is wanted after being convicted of attempting to use Jalal’s criminal network to smuggle a relative to Britain.
Cash found in the lorry
NCA officers are issuing appeals for the whereabouts of both men following the sentencing today (10 May) of the remaining members of the gang.
Key to the plot was Romanian lorry driver Palage who carried out migrant runs for the network in his truck, using crossings from Normandy into Portsmouth.
Kamaran Kader, aged 44 and from Bradford, and Pshtewan Ghafour, aged 37 and from Middlesbrough, acted alongside Jalal and worked with Palage to organise crossings, says the NCA.
Following a four-week trial at Bournemouth Crown Court, Palage and Ghafour were found guilty of conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration. They were sentenced to nine and five years in prison respectively.
Cash found hidden in the lorry
As part of the same trial, Jamal Walid Saied, 38 and from Manchester, Halifax’s Mustafa and Salih were all found guilty of facilitating illegal immigration. They were today handed sentences of three years, two-and-a half-years, and two years respectively.
Salih absconded before the start of the trial and was convicted and sentenced in his absence. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Kader had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing and was sentenced to four-and-a-half years.
NCA Branch Commander Richard Harrison said: “People smugglers risk lives, which is why targeting them is a priority for the NCA and we are doing all we can to disrupt and dismantle the criminal networks involved.
“The men convicted and sentenced put profit ahead of people. They were happy to put vulnerable migrants into the backs of lorries for long Channel sea crossings, and I’m delighted they are now behind bars.
“But Goran Jalal and Hemin Ali Salih both remain at large. Warrants have been issued for their arrests, and we will not rest until they are in custody.”
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of either Jalal or Salih should contact the NCA on 0370 4967622 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
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The unknown pedestrian was just seconds away from being “squashed” by the lorry which had been struck at the junction by a speeding Volkswagen Passat.
The Passat driver, Shaheib Mohammed, 24, was today (Wednesday) jailed for two years and eight months after Bradford Crown Court heard that his passenger that night suffered a catalogue of serious injuries including a bleed on the brain and a ripped aorta.
Judge Colin Burn was told that the injured man, who was described as Mohammed’s best friend, had declined to cooperate with the police investigation and did not want to see him sent to prison.
Shaheib Mohammed, 24, was today (Wed) jailed for two years and eight months after Bradford Crown Court heard that his passenger that night suffered a catalogue of serious injuries including a bleed on the brain and a ripped aorta.
But Mohammed, of Clay Pits Lane, Pellon, Halifax, pleaded guilty to a charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and Judge Burn said his actions had been “lethally dangerous”.
The judge said regardless of what Mohammed’s friend might think now an entirely innocent pedestrian came within a couple of metres at the most of being “squashed” between the HGV and a house wall.
“It wasn’t a case of momentary inattention,” the judge told Mohammed.
“It is quite clear from the footage that you were driving at high speed down the road.”
Bradford Crown Court
Judge Burn said Mohammed’s offence was aggravated by the fact that he failed to give a sample of breath or blood following the crash.
Prosecutor Gareth Henderson-Moore said Mohammed had been driving the Passat on Sand Beds at about 10.30pm on May 11 last year when he overtook another vehicle at speed and failed to slow down for the junction despite the lights being on red.
He said Mohammed and the HGV driver suffered minor injuries, but the defendant’s friend had bleeding on the brain, damage to the major arterial vessel of his chest and fractures to his ribs, breastbone and femurs.
Mr Henderson-Moore said the complainant had declined to provide a victim personal statement.
Mohammed’s barrister Erin Kitson-Parker referred to the complainant saying he did not want her client to go to custody, but Judge Burn said he had to consider the offence in the light of other road users and the pedestrian who narrowly missed being “obliterated” by the lorry.
Miss Kitson-Parker said Mohammed had “held his hands up” despite knowing that his friend never wanted to cooperate.
She said Mohammed, who had limited previous convictions, expected an immediate custodial sentence but she submitted that the judge could consider a suspended prison sentence.
But Judge Burn said there was far too many men like Mohammed deliberately driving in excess of the speed limit and well beyond their capabilities.
Mohammed was banned from driving for a total of three years and four months and he must take an extended test at the end of that period before he can lawfully drive again.
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