London: An Asian Labour peer, Lord Nazir Ahmed faces two years jail sentence after he admitted dangerous driving and sending text messages while on a motorway, which had led to a fatal car crash killing a person.
The 51-year-old peer, whose roots are in Mirpur, in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, yesterday admitted sending and receiving a series of five text messages while driving in the dark at more than 60mph along a 17-mile stretch of the Motorway in Yorkshire last year.
Martyn Gombar, the driver of the Audi, which was rammed by Ahmed's vehicle from the back, on the motorway, was killed in the accident. He was a Slovakian and father of two living in Leigh, Greater Manchester.
Ahmed, appeared at Sheffield magistrates court yesterday and pleaded guilty of dangerous driving on the southbound carriageway of the Mi, between Dewsbury and Rotherham on Christmas Day last year.
He was handed an interim driving ban until his sentencing on December 22. The court was told that Ahmed was driving his Jaguar from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire to his home in Rotherham, south Yorkshire with his wife and mother and Gombar's Audi was without lights stationary across the middle and outside lanes after hitting the central reservation on the unlit motorway at about 6.20 pm.
Gombar had though escaped to a hard shoulder but had gone to retrieve his mobile phone from the car when Ahmed's vehicle ran into it.
District Judge Mark Hadfield adjourned the case for pre-sentence reports and said that he would consider all sentencing options.
