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Law student who took penalty points for her Addison Lee driver husband who was caught doing 40mph in a 30 zone is spared jail

Nabeela Khan accepted the blame for driving 40mph through a 30mph zone in the Addison Lee taxi used by her husband Shazad Naz (pictured outside court)

A law student who took speeding penalty points for her taxi driver husband has today avoided jail.

Nabeela Khan, 37, accepted the blame and paid a fine for driving 40mph through a 30mph zone in the Addison Lee taxi used by Shazad Naz, 38.

The couple, both of Tomswood Hill, Ilford, were caught out when police were tipped off that Naz had been on duty at the time.

The court heard Naz was caught by a speeding camera near London’s Tower Hill as he took a fare from Covent Garden to Ilford, east London, in the early hours of September 1, 2012.

The following month the police received a form back from Naz stating that his wife was the driver.

Khan’s licence was endorsed with penalty points and she paid the fine by cheque in February 2013.

Prosecutor Dickon Reid said: ‘The police later obtained information from Addison Lee confirming it was Mr Naz who was at work.

‘Khan said in a statement she had been doing her accounts and it came to her that it was not her and it was her partner.

‘She said she had made an honest mistake as she used his minicab to drive around as it was more comfortable than hers.’

Naz and Khan denied perverting the course of justice

Although the couple claimed they made an honest mistake, jurors at the Old Bailey convicted them both of perverting the course of justice.

The judge, Mr Recorder Caplan QC, gave the couple suspended prison sentences after accepting it was a ‘spontaneous act’.

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