Saturday, January 26, 2019

Driver who paralysed girl jailed

A drug dealer who crashed and left his teenage passenger paralysed from the neck down has been jailed. Asman Nawaz, 28, was locked up for three years and five months after the girl, now 18, gave a police statement using only her eyes. 

Luton Crown Court heard how Nawaz gave the girl a ‘living death sentence’ when his Vauxhall Corsa flipped on 8 August 2017.

south beds news agency-luton-(fairleys) From: Fairley of Luton South Beds News Agency/Fairley of Luton Tel: 01582 572222 Email: southbedsnews@btconnect.com 25 1 2019 A teenage girl suffered appalling injuries in a car crash that has left her trapped in a ???living death??? a court heard today (Fri) She has been left paralysed from the neck down and can only communicate by eye movement and nodding her head. Today (Fri) the drug dealing driver who lost control of the car the girl was a passenger in was jailed for 41 months after pleading guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving. LUTON Crown court heard Aman Nawaz???s first thought after the crash had been to make off and abandon her The 28 year old was worried about crack cocaine and heroin that was in the car was and climbed over the teenager who had ended up trapped in the footwell of the Corsa car. As he made off he was heard to scream ???I???m f.....!??? Nawaz of Bolingbroke Road in LUTON went on the run while the youngster who was 17 at the time battled for life after suffering terrible injuries to her spinal cord. The crash happened on the morning of August 8 2017 as he drove the girl at speed to college in Luton along Dunstable Road in Caddington. The court was told the defendant had come round a bend at and was on a straight stretch of road when for some reason he lost control of the car and it ended up overturning and rolling into a tree. The girl who is now 18 is completely paralysed. She had to have a tracheotomy to enable her to breath and she can only communicate by eye movement. The court was told the youngster now understands the injuries she suffered will cut short life and trapped in her paralysed state she finds herself constantly thinking about death. Judge Barbara Mensah hearing the case said ???A worst fate is unimaginable.??? She said the injuries the teenager had suffered that day meant she was now having to endure ???a living death sentence.??? The court wa

Nawaz, who was giving the girl a lift to college in Luton, fled the scene because he was worried police would find heroin and crack cocaine in his car. Body of missing student found five months after he disappeared She helped jail him after by using a machine which translated her eye movements into words. 

She said in a statement read out in court: ‘I can’t move and I cannot breathe on my own. ‘I will never get a job or have any freedom and I am in pain all the time.’

Judge Barbara Mensah said the girl, who was 17 at the time of the crash, had been given a ‘living death sentence’ and added: ‘A worse fate is unimaginable’. Nawaz climbed over the teenager who was trapped in the footwell after he lost control of the car, which overturned and rolled into a tree. She was left battling for her life after suffering severe injuries to her spinal cord.

The court was told the young girl now understands the injuries she suffered will cut her life short life and trapped in her paralysed state, she finds herself constantly thinking about death. 

He was jailed for 41 months and banned from the road for 16 years after pleading guilty to causing serious injury through dangerous driving. He was jailed for six years in 2018 in connection with the drugs found in his car and will serve both sentenced consecutively.


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