Tuesday 22nd January 2008
DRIVER FAKED DEATH TO AVOID FINES
Couldn't have been me, i'm dead.
Back from the grave
To avoid paying £180 in fines, Shafkat Munir, 26, from Blackburn, Lancs, produced a false death certificate to the authorities after speed cameras snapped him three times.
He admitted perverting the course of justice and was jailed for 12 months, and banned from driving.
Munir was first caught speeding in January last year on the M55 in Lancashire by doing 66mph on a 50mph stretch.
Then he was snapped by a camera doing 36 mph in a 30mph zone on Preston New Road in Blackpool.
The third time was in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, when he was doing 41mph in a 30mph zone.
A man claiming to be called Rashid Hussain contacted the parking office, claiming that Munir had died in Pakistan in 2002.
A death certificate in Urdu was sent in, but inaccuracies were found.
John Davies, of Lancashire's Road Safety Partnership, said Munir's con was "almost unbelievable".
He added: "Munir's licence was clean before this spate of incidents and he would have still been able to drive - I have never known anyone go to such lengths."
