Tony Earnshaw
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2 days ago |
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk | Tony Earnshaw |John Davies |Chris Young
Those sentenced at Bradford Crown Court (Image: West Yorkshire Police/Newsquest) A CRASH which killed a much-loved young mum; a rapist, and a woman who battered her husband to death were among the cases heard at Bradford Crown Court over the past week. Jordan Spalding and Shakeel Ahmed Two men involved in a fatal car crash two years ago that led to the death of an 18-year-old mum Amber Deakin were locked up for a total of 20 years and 11 months.
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5 days ago |
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk | Tony Earnshaw
Jordan Spalding (left) and Shakeel Ahmed have been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police) TWO men involved in a fatal car crash two years ago that led to the death of an 18-year-old mother have been jailed for a total of 20 years and 11 months. There was a cry of “Yes!” from the public gallery as Jordan Spalding and Shakeel Ahmed were sentenced at Bradford Crown Court over the crash that killed Amber Deakin on January 3, 2023.
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5 days ago |
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk | Tony Earnshaw
Asghar Badshah and the police scene in Batley (Image: Newsquest) A COURT has heard how an international drug trafficker ordered “a snatch squad of mercenaries” to kidnap the uncle he believed had taken hundreds of thousands of pounds of drug money. Opening the case against Tahir Syed at Leeds Crown Court, Richard Wright KC said it was not clear how his uncle, 39-year-old Bradford bus driver Asghar Badshah, had come to be involved in holding the cash.
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1 week ago |
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk | Tony Earnshaw
Forensics officers at the scene (Image: Newsquest) Neighbours of an elderly man who was attacked with a garden implement outside his Bradford home heard him screaming “Help me! Help me!” Minutes later they saw 92-year-old David Hart being doused with petrol and set on fire by his wife Susan Poole, 53, a court heard.
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1 week ago |
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk | Tony Earnshaw
2 1/1 A MAN has pleaded not guilty to the kidnap and murder of Bradford bus driver Asghar Badshah, who died in 2019. The trial of Tahir Syed is estimated to take six weeks before His Honour Judge Tom Bayliss at Leeds Crown Court. Syed, 42, of no fixed abode and dressed in a white shirt and grey sleeveless top, pleaded not guilty to:The murder of Mr Badshah between November 28 and December 6, 2019.
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A truly shocking story, with more to come tomorrow. #Bradford #CrownCourt #Courts
RT @Bradford_TandA: 'Key suspect' dies after crossbow incident on Otley Run, Leeds https://t.co/xvYbGWBWAy https://t.co/PH986IrVdn
I'm in Bradford Crown Court today, waiting for cases to get underway. People watching. Not many folk turn up in suits (or otherwise well-dressed) for their appearance in the dock anymore. But I've just seen one person wearing... flip flops. Dead casual, as the saying goes...
