A TAKEAWAY owner has been sentenced to six months in jail after he tried to avoid prosecution for three speeding offences.

After receiving Notices of Intended Prosecution, Usama Ahmed, 23, provided false details about the driver to the authorities and even submitted a fake insurance policy in relation to one of the incidents.

Police inquiries into the details given by Ahmed revealed that the people named by him could not be traced, or in one instance it was a man who didn’t know the defendant and had never borrowed his grey Audi S3.

Bradford Crown Court heard how Ahmed’s Audi had been caught doing 99mph on the M62 eastbound between junctions 26 and 27 back in April, 2020.

Prosecutor Charlotte Noddings said in June the same year, the same Audi was caught speeding on St Enoch’s Road in Bradford. On June 25, 2020, it was doing 66mph on the 30mph road and four days later it was caught doing 36mph.

Ahmed, of Newstead Terrace, Halifax, already had eight penalty points on his driving licence at the time.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Richard Mansell QC, said he had given false information to avoid the inevitable loss of his licence.

Ahmed, who had no previous convictions and was 20 at the time of the offending, admitted three offences of doing acts tending or intended to pervert the course of justice.

Judge Mansell said such offending struck at the heart of the justice system and Ahmed had made determined efforts to avoid the consequences of his actions.

“It’s all too common, I’m afraid,” the judge told him.

“People must know when they fill in those forms falsely they are risking immediate imprisonment.”