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Horsforth: 'Arrogant' businessman's £250 bribe
An "arrogant" businessman caught speeding in Horsforth tried to escape penalty points by paying a woman to say she'd been driving.
Mahmood Mazhar, 42, agreed to give cash-strapped Hayley Tyas 250 to claim she was behind the wheel of his Porsche convertible.
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He had been snapped by a speed camera on the A65 at Horsforth.
But Leeds Crown Court heard that when the speed camera photographs were studied it was discovered a man was behind the wheel and clearly not Tyas.
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Prosecutor Craig Hassall said Mazhar, who runs Horsforth business Core Telecom Ltd, jokingly asked employee Gareth Davies, 27, "I don't suppose you fancy taking these points for me?"
Davies declined but said his sister, Tyas, was short of cash and the plot to lie about the fixed penalty notice was put into action.
Mazhar, who also runs Northern Bar, on Call Lane, Leeds, only had three points on his licence which were about to expire when he came up with the speeding ticket scam last May 8.
Robin Frieze, for Mazhar, of Greenland Farm, Farrer Lane, Oulton, said the incident had been a "wake up call" to address his client's "arrogant attitudes", adding: "In other words, the rulesdon't apply to me because I'm a successful businessman."
Mazhar and Davies, of Blagden Lane, Newsome, Huddersfield, both admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The Recorder of Leeds Judge Peter Collier yesterday handed both men 16 week jail sentences suspended for 12 months.
Both must do 200 hours unpaid work and pay 320 prosecution costs.
Mazhar was fined 5,000 and Davies 1,000.
In March, Tyas, who has since emigrated to Canada, was handed a 16 week prison sentence suspended for 12 weeks.
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