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Bedfordshire-on-Sunday: Deaf mute loses conviction appeal
A deaf-mute man who illegally evicted a tenant from his Bedford home has failed in a bid to get his conviction overturned.
Mohammed Ishaque, 38, of Marlborough Road, Bedford, forced tenant Omar Traore out of his brother’s property in Ford End Road, by making it ‘essentially uninhabitable’ – including cutting off the utilities supply.
Ishaque was given a conditional discharge for two years after he admitted unlawful eviction at Luton Crown Court in April last year.
On Thursday he asked Mrs Justice Gloster, sitting with Mr Justice Owen and Lord Justice Latham at London’s Criminal Appeal Court, for permission to appeal against the crown court judge’s refusal to let him withdraw his guilty plea and fight the case.
The court heard how Ishaque and others carried out works on the building which ‘essentially made it uninhabitable by a tenant’.
He admitted the offence in February last year, but shortly afterwards asked for permission to withdraw his guilty plea. The judge refused and sentenced him in April.
This week he asked to have that decision overturned, saying that his disabilities and difficulty understanding had led him into a situation in court which he hadn’t wanted.
But Mrs Justice Gloster ruled: “There is nothing to justify any criticism of how the judge dealt with the application.”
A deaf-mute man who illegally evicted a tenant from his Bedford home has failed in a bid to get his conviction overturned.
Mohammed Ishaque, 38, of Marlborough Road, Bedford, forced tenant Omar Traore out of his brother’s property in Ford End Road, by making it ‘essentially uninhabitable’ – including cutting off the utilities supply.
Ishaque was given a conditional discharge for two years after he admitted unlawful eviction at Luton Crown Court in April last year.
On Thursday he asked Mrs Justice Gloster, sitting with Mr Justice Owen and Lord Justice Latham at London’s Criminal Appeal Court, for permission to appeal against the crown court judge’s refusal to let him withdraw his guilty plea and fight the case.
The court heard how Ishaque and others carried out works on the building which ‘essentially made it uninhabitable by a tenant’.
He admitted the offence in February last year, but shortly afterwards asked for permission to withdraw his guilty plea. The judge refused and sentenced him in April.
This week he asked to have that decision overturned, saying that his disabilities and difficulty understanding had led him into a situation in court which he hadn’t wanted.
But Mrs Justice Gloster ruled: “There is nothing to justify any criticism of how the judge dealt with the application.”