Friday - January 13, 2012

muslim councillor in court for expense fiddling. for the second time.

A small blurb in this morning’s Telegraph caught my eye. Not cos it’s a super exciting kind of thing. Really dull in it’s own way but no surprise.
Yawn.

A councillor has admitted being a benefits cheat. 

FOR THE SECOND TIME

Jeesh. What sort of incentive did the powers that leach give her to convince her she’d committed a crime. It’s stealing. Period.

Her name is Shelina Akhtar, but I’d guess where she originally comes from that kind of thing is par for the course.

Take a look.

councillor convicted of second benefit fraud

By Andrew Gilligan

A key supporter of Tower Hamlets’ extremist-linked mayor, Lutfur Rahman, today pleaded guilty to three counts of dishonestly claiming housing and council tax benefits – the second time she has been convicted of such offences.

Councillor Shelina Akhtar failed to turn up in court at the start of the case today, claiming that she was unwell and unfit to stand trial, but the judge dismissed her claim and issued a warrant for her arrest. When she finally appeared this afternoon, Judge Platt told her: “I make you no promises today. This is the second time you have committed fraud against the state regarding benefits to which you are not entitled. The court needs to know more before deciding on the appropriate sentence.” Akhtar cheated the taxpayer of just over £1100 in benefits. She will be sentenced next month.

The prosecutor, Michelle Fawcett, said: “She is a local councillor and the case, therefore, was more serious. This defendant has previous convictions for identical matters.”

In 2010 Akhtar, of Blackwall Way, was handed 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £250 costs after being found guilty of dishonestly claiming jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit during a case at Thames Magistrates’ Court.

Akhtar is one of eight Tower Hamlets councillors who were expelled from the Labour Party after deciding to support Lutfur, who was sacked as Labour’s candidate for mayor for his close links to an extremist Muslim group, the Islamic Forum of Europe.  Lutfur took the Telegraph to the Press Complaints Commission - and lost – after we described Akhtar as a “Lutfur Rahman councillor.” He tried to claim that she was not connected to him. (He has also tried to claim that he is not linked to extremism – he lost that complaint, too.)

SOURCE

To be fair now, cause we don’t wanna be accused of islamophobia or nuttin’ like it, she comes from a different country and a different culture. And like others of her ilk, many others in fact, (way,way too many) the rules of the country they move to of course does not apply to them. Neither do the laws.
So I guess some slack has to be cut to insure fairness and understanding. Not that these folks would reciprocate of course.

Yesterday, coming under much criticism for a law in Israel regarding pals, an Israeli politician whose name I can’t recall but whose statement I can, said that “human rights was no excuse for committing national suicide.”
I think many Brits would agree with that. Now if only they could get their leaders to understand.

Posted by peiper     on 01/13/2012 at 09:27 AM   
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