Minicab driver jailed for headbutting parking warden in row over pay and display ticket

 
Headbutt attack: Tamim Ahmed, 37, has been jailed for attacking a parking warden
Asher McShane27 March 2015
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A cab driver has been jailed for headbutting a warden in a row over parking.

Tamim Ahmed, 37 of Westminster, was jailed for nine months at the Old Bailey after he cracked the Civil Enforcement Officer in face, breaking his nose.

Ahmed had parked his car in a bay without displaying a ticket in a bay on a street in the City.

He was sitting in his car when the parking warden approached the window and told him to move on as there was another car waiting to park.

Ahmed, who is self employed, said someone had gone to buy a ticket for him and he was waiting for them to come back.

But after a five-minute grace period Ahmed got out of the car, started swearing at the traffic warden and then attacked him. He then got back in his car and drove off.

The parking warden reported the assault to police shortly after the attack in the evening of June 11 last year.

Ahmed voluntarily attended an interview at Bishopsgate Police station the following day where he was charged and bailed.

He was found guilty of actual bodily harm and sentenced to nine months in prison.

PC Vincent Baughan from the City of London Police said, “This was a violent and unprovoked attack on a Civil Enforcement Officer trying to do their job. They suffered a broken nose because a member of the public did not want to pay for a parking ticket.

“No worker should have to tolerate this behaviour no matter what the dispute is over.

We take these crimes very seriously and will continue to make the City of London a safe place for people to work.”

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