Jail for asylum-seeker driving instructor who sat tests for 10 students

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Asylum-seeker Nazaire Djoukan, 41, charged 10 students £150 each to sit their tests.

Djoukan, who arrived in Britain from Cameroon in 1997, started working as a driving instructor even though he was not qualified

Learner scam: Nazaire Djoukan charged 10 students £150 each to sit their tests

Three of the men for whom he took tests admitted charges of conspiracy to obtain property by deception and were ordered to do a total of 350 hours’ community service.

All four were also disqualified from driving for a year.

Sentencing them at Croydon crown court, Judge Stephen Waller said: ‘The most serious part of this is that there are people on the roads who are driving without passing their test.

‘They may be good drivers or they may be hopeless and be a danger to the public, but they have never put themselves forward for a test.’

Sentencing Djoukan, from Catford, the judge added: ‘A driving instructor, whether qualified or not, should be teaching best driving practice and that you were not doing.’

David Horne, who investigated the case for the Driving Standards Authority, said afterwards it highlighted a growing problem.

‘People considering taking tests for their friends should know that we are onto them,’ he said.