Lord Ahmed jailed for sending texts before fatal crash

Times Online (UK) ^ | February 24 2009 | Nico Hines and Andrew Norfolk

[knighthawk]

The Labour life peer Lord Ahmed was today sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for dangerous driving after he admitted sending text messages from behind the wheel before a fatal road accident.

Lord Ahmed had sent several long text messages on December 25, 2007 while driving at 60mph on the M1 motorway near Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Martyn Gombar, 28, a Slovakian man from Leigh, Lancashire, died when Lord Ahmed's Jaguar hit an Audi car that had crashed into the central reservation and was lying stationary across the middle and outside lanes.

Lord Ahmed pleaded guilty to dangerous driving but Mr Justice Wilkie made it clear that the offence had no causal link with the fatal accident.

[knighthawk]

3 months, compare his sentence to these 2:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article864804.ece
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/justice/article2198487.ece

[chuck_the_tv_out]

this is the same turd that was against Wilders coming into the UK.

couldn’t happen to a nicer turd.

[CholeraJoe]

Maybe his cell mate will be a soccer hooligan who doesn't like uppity muzzies.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

He got caught for this, but suffered nothing for a far more serious crime:

 

 

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDVhODU5MDQ2OTg5OGNmOWJkNjk3MTRlYTg4MGJjZjM=

 

 

Preserving ‘Harmony’ for Islamic Radicals: Geert Wilders is barred from entering the United Kingdom.

By Andrew C. McCarthy

Excerpt:

Today’s Britain, however, is not the Britain of Churchill and free expression, but of Jacqui Smith and multicultural hypersensitivity. Wilders intended to screen his film in the House of Lords in late January, but his trip was postponed due to the machinations of Nazir Ahmed, a Labour lord and grievance-industry agitator of the first order. As the Hudson Institute’s Thomas Landen reports, Lord Ahmed threatened to mobilize 10,000 rabble-rousers to prevent Wilders from entering Parliament. When the trip was rescheduled for this week, Smith’s office issued a curt letter apprising Wilders that he would not be admitted into the country. According to the letter, Wilders’s “statements about Muslims and their beliefs, as expressed in your film Fitna and elsewhere, would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the U.K.” Later, the Home Office laughably maintained that by barring Wilders it was perforce barring “extremism, hatred, and violent messages.”

 

[WayneS]

Have you seen the movie Green Street Hooligans?

It's a pretty good flick about the soccer (pardon me, FOOTBALL) "clubs" in England.

I think it might have had a slightly different name when released in the U.K.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Dat be da one.

[edcoil]

What part of “Lord” did you miss. Part of the upper crust of England - they live under a different set of laws. I am surprised he even got 12 weeks. My guess is after the country club jail for 2-3 weeks it will be changed to home (mansion) confinement.

[cricket]

Thought this was same man. . .will the Brit’s wake-up or not? Or perhaps they already have; and find it is too late.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

No, they go to big boys prison like everyone else. Lord Archer was sent down for Perjury for 4 years and went to Belmarsh, and Jonathan Aitkin, a former minister, went down for a similar offence and got beaten up by the inmates for being a posh Tory......

[1066AD]

This is the guy who threatened a mob of "10,000 muslims" to block the showing of Fitna at a private event. Why he got enobled is beyond me, must be a "New Labour" thing, more Blair destruction of the country.

[ZULU]

“Lord” Ahmed? “LORD” Ahmed???

I thought a “Lord” had to be a knight. And I thought Knights had to be Christians.

The Brits are leading the pack of western European Islamic Serfs - the Dhimmis to end all Dhimmis.

[the scotsman]

A Lord is a non-religious designation.

Lords have been Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. And in more modern times, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim. And of course atheist.

[Excellence]

With enough money, a manor, and the title that goes with it, may be purchased.

[ZULU]

That’s unfortunate. I thought Britain was offcially a Christian country. Wonder when it changed.

[ZULU]

Unfortunate.

When they knighted the Beetles, I knew it was over.

[Republican Party Reptile]

Wonder when it changed.

Since at least Victorian time. Sir Nathaniel Rothschild was the first Jewish peer in 1885.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[naturalman1975]

The only one of the Beatles to be knighted is Sir Paul McCartney in 1997.

He, along with the others received an MBE in 1965, but the MBE is not a Knighthood - considerably lower than that - I hold a similar level Honour myself, it’s nice to have, but it’s not a big deal.

[naturalman1975]

A Lord does not have to be a Knight - they are completely separate honours. Some people do hold both, but there's far more Lords without Knighthoods than there are with Knighthoods.

Historically - going back to the middle ages - Knights were Christian, but since about 1560 Knighthoods have been awarded in Britain for services to society and there's been no requirement that the recipients are of any particular faith. The first Jewish Knight received the accolade in 1700 - Sir Solomon de Medina for his services in raising money and supplying provisions to the English Army.

It is, in the modern era, a civil honour for service.

'Lord' is more complex. Some are hereditary, more and more are Life Peerages, which in theory are awarded for service to the nation - and some are. In other cases, it's become simply a convenient way for a government to put somebody into political office without worrying about getting them elected to Parliament - give them a Peerage that puts them in the House of Lords. Lord Ahmed (the first Moslem to receive a Life Peerage and the second Moslem Lord - Henry Stanley, the Third Baron Stanley of Alderley and Second Baron Eddisbury, converted to Islam in 1862) is pretty much one of this last type.