Shamed driver caught with prostitute mows down and kills man - and escapes jail

Married father-of-three Mohammed Bashir reversed his car over Faisar Iqbal before dragging him 80 metres and leaving the 22-year-old dying in the street.

He then fled the scene, went to wash his car and told employees he believed he may have run down a man who tried to rob him.

Fed up Mr Iqbal had approached Bashir, 37, in his car after spotting him with the prostitute, annoyed that the area outside the fmaily business was being used for soliciting.

Bashir admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice and was ordered to do 200 hours of community work. He was banned from driving for 12 months.

Faiser's heartbroken father Jawed Iqbal, 54, has slammed the light sentence handed out to coward Bashir and said that his son died outside BJ Car Valeting, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in December 2006, while trying to make the world a better place.

He said: "We were expecting this man to be locked up. People go to prison for much lesser driving offences than this.

"This man has killed our son and tried to lie about it and has pretty much walked away a free man.

"He should have been locked away for five or six years and had time on his own to think about the pain and suffering he has caused."

Bradford Crown Court heard that Faiser was fed up of vice girls taking clients to the cul-de-sac where his family business is located, and littering it with evidence of their trade.

While at the office late one night just before Christmas out-going Mr Faiser, who had worked with the family for seven years, had spotted Bashir in a car with a prostitute on the unlit street at 3am.

After he had been caught Bashir tried to flee in the fear his dirty secret would come out. While trying to get away he backed into Faiser, knocked him down and dragged him 80 metres under the car.

Faiser, described by his family as respectful, kind and loving, never regained consciousness and died of multiple injuries in St James's Hospital, Leeds, five days later.

After the shocking incident, heartless Bashir drove to his restaurant, dropping the prostitute off on the way, where restaurant staff said they thought Bashir looked ill.

He claimed he may have run over and killed one of a gang who tried to rob him but then went to wash his car to get rid of evidence of the collision with Faiser.

Finally two hours after the accident, he went to a nearby police station and told officers he feared for his life, reversed, panicked and washed the car out of foolishness.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall said: "I am satisfied that you drove in the manner you did in a state of shame, fear and panic."

The judge said Faiser was "absolutely and totally fed up with the use of that cul-de-sac for the purposes of prostitution, that you, unbelievably as a married man, were engaged in."

He said that because Bashir was not charged with any other offence, he felt compelled to sentence him to a community penalty.

Devastated father-of-five Jawed condemned the outcome and was furious that Bashir had not been charged with a more serious offence.

He said: "The whole family is heartbroken. We visit Faiser's grave every day - it is just too unbearable to consider what we have lost.

"To know the man that did this to use is still able to walk the streets freely makes me feel like justice has not been done at all."

Speaking of his son's disgust of the misuse of the cul-de-sac Jawed said: "Faiser was sick of seeing the litter the prostitutes left in the street and was asking them to do whatever they were doing elsewhere.

"He was trying to make the community a better place."

He added: "You read stories in the news every day about people going to jail for minor offences. This man has basically killed somebody and is getting away with it. This is an insult to my son's memory."