Tariq Jahan escapes jail for road rage attack after judge praised him for helping prevent ‘serious disorder’ during summer riots

April 5th, 2012

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Tariq Jahan was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm at Birmingham Court Court after a three-day trial
He had sobbed in the dock as he recounted how his son died in riots
After the death of Haroon, 21, last August, he had appealed for peace hours
Mr Jahan was accused of grabbing Sajjad Ali by the throat last July
Mr Ali was treated for jaw fractures and lost two teeth

By
Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED:

12:57 EST, 3 April 2012

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UPDATED:

11:18 EST, 5 April 2012

The beavered father who won national
acclaim when he appealed for calm after his son was killed in
last summer’s riots, was spared jail today for his part in a road rage attack.

Tariq Jahan, 46, grabbed 34-year-old Sajjid Ali by the
throat before punching him to the ground after the pair got into an
argument in Handsworth, Birmingham, on July 6 last year.

He had accused the factory worker of staring at his wife.

But sentencing Jahan, Judge William Davis QC told him his heartfelt pleas for an end to last summer’s violence was ‘a genuine public service.’

He said: ‘Ordinarily this would mean
that you would go to prison for 12 months but this all happened last
July and in August, as everybody in this court knows, you suffered the
loss of one of your sons, which was desperate in itself.

Tariq Jahan (left) allegedly assaulted Sajjad Ali after the pair got into an argument outside Mr Ali's workplace in Factory Road, Handsworth, in July last year

Tariq Jahan allegedly assaulted Sajjad Ali (pictured) after the pair got into an argument outside Mr Ali's workplace in Factory Road, Handsworth, in July last year

Tariq Jahan (left) was accused of assaulting Sajjad Ali (right) after they got into an argument outside Mr Ali’s workplace in Factory Road, Handsworth, last July. Both are seen outside Birmingham Crown Court

‘But more particularly, in the aftermath
of this loss you took steps which in my judgment… probably prevented
really serious disorder continuing in Birmingham.’

The judge, who said he had sentenced many people for riot-related crimes since last summer, described Jahan’s actions as ‘a genuine public service.

Jahan was cleared of the more serious charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Tariq Jahan (at the microphone) addresses community groups from across Birmingham at a peace rally

Tariq Jahan (at the microphone) addresses community groups from across Birmingham at a peace rally protest in Summerfield Park last August a week after his son was killed

But was also told to pay £1,000 compensation to Mr Ali within 12 months.

His sentence was suspended for two years and he was ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work.

Yesterday, Jahan sobbed and held his head
in his hands as he gave evidence to the jury at Birmingham Crown Court.

Jahan, whose 21-year-old son Haroon, died as
riots swept across the country last August, admitted hitting Mr Ali in
the face but told the court he acted in self defence after Mr Ali head
butted him, and denies the charge against him.

He said he pulled over and got out of
his car to speak to Mr Ali after the pair got into an argument over
Jahan sounding his car horn at a van blocking his path. Mr Ali had been
standing on the roadside speaking to the driver of the van.

Tariq Jahan came into the public eye when Haroon (in photo) was killed while protecting their community from looters

Jahan told the court Mr Ali was mouthing something at him in an ‘aggressive manner’.

He said he wound down the window on
the passenger side of his white Mitsubishi car and asked Mr Ali about
where he was from and what his religion was in an attempt to relate to
him and find some common ground.

He said: ‘I asked, “are you Pakistani,
Iraqi, Sikh, Hindu or Muslim”, just to try to relate to him. He looked
very similar to me and I suspected he was of Asian descent and because
he was a young man and he looked a bit upset I was trying to calm him
down.

‘I thought if I could relate to what he was, I could talk to him better.

‘He replied, “F*** off you grey haired old fart, what has it got to do with you?”

‘I parked the vehicle. My wife (in the passenger seat) said to me, ‘what are you doing?’, I said, ‘I’m going to talk to him.’

‘I normally speak to people who are aggressive.’

Jahan said he was ‘upset’ when the
incident became violent, adding: ‘I didn’t want confrontation, I just
wanted to try to resolve something that I thought I could resolve. I
wasn’t proud of what I had done. I was not happy.

‘To see what I had done played on my mind as I drove back home. To me, it was the only means of defending myself.

‘I was hoping to calm him down. He was a young man and he seemed to be getting aggressive over a minute issue.’

Asked why he did not just drive away,
he said: ‘It is not in my nature to drive off. You try to resolve
issues, you don’t run away from issues.

‘I thought if I talked to him I could
calm him down. I suppose now with hindsight I could have, I should have,
driven off. It probably wouldn’t have got to this stage.

‘If human beings can relate to one another, they tend to calm down.’

Jahan’s son Haroon and his friends –
brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31 – were struck by a car in
the early hours of August 10 last year during disorder in the Winson
Green area of Birmingham.

They were pronounced dead in hospital and hailed as heroes who died protecting homes and shops from looters.

From left, Haroon Jahan and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, all died after being hit by a car in the early hours of August 10

Jahan, of Winson Street, Winson Green,
later made a heartfelt plea to crowds of youths gathered outside his
home to end the disorder and ‘go home’.

His personal call for calm was credited with helping to bring an end to the riots.

Asked about his actions in the hours
following his son’s death by defence barrister Ali Naseem Bajwa, QC, he
said: ‘There is hardly any issue in life that can’t be resolved by
talking to someone.’

Sobbing, he added: ‘I had my own loss
at the time and I felt that it was not necessary for other people to
suffer what I had suffered.’

Jahan subsequently received a Pride of
Britain special recognition award for his compassion and dignity in the
aftermath of his son’s death.

Giving evidence to the court
yesterday, Mr Ali said Jahan drove up to him in his car and said: ‘Oi,
why you staring at me?’ before getting out of the vehicle and accusing
him of ‘staring at my missus’.

Mr Ali, 34, alleges he was grabbed by
the throat by the defendant, punched in the face and knocked to the
floor, then kicked or punched while he was on the ground.

Mr Ali told the jury of five women and
seven men Jahan’s manner was ‘really aggressive’ when he approached him
and accused him of staring.

‘He punched me and it was on my
forehead or somewhere,’ he told the court, ‘but I was totally blind. It
went in one of my eyes and I just fell down.’

He said he thought the attack lasted
five minutes or less but he did not know if a number of blows he
received while he was on the floor were kicks or punches and said: ‘It
was just bang, bang, bang on my head.’

He went on: ‘He punched me or kicked
me, I can’t say exactly if it was a punch or kick, but when he saw me
spitting my tooth and my mouth was bleeding he just ran off.

‘He left me like that.’

Mr Ali was taken to hospital by his
manager and treated for two fractures to his jaw. He also lost two teeth
and had bruises to the left temple area of his face.

Prosecutor Shenaz Muzaffer told the
court a medical expert concluded that a ‘moderate to severe’ use of
force would have been required to cause the injuries to the jaw.

She said: ‘It is the Crown’s case that the defendant deliberately inflicted those injuries intending to cause serious harm.’

She added: ‘The defendant does accept that he did have an altercation with Mr Ali but says he was acting in self defence.’