A motorist who tried to pin speeding offences on an innocent man has been jailed - after a speed camera image proved he was the driver.
Mattansar Mahmood, 32, pictured, blamed a Polish man for two offences after obtaining the foreign national’s lost driving licence. But he was arrested after being identified as the driver by a pin-sharp speed camera image.
Unemployed Mahmood was jailed for 12 months at Wolverhampton Crown Court after he admitted perverting the course of justice.
The court heard he was clocked at 41mph in a 30-zone in Sandwell Road, Handsworth, in November 2014 and again in Soho Way on last March when he activated a roadside camera at 48mph.
But when he received prosecution paperwork, Mahmood blamed the 52-year-old Dudley-based Polish man.
West Midlands Police’s Camera Enforcement Unit launched an investigation when the blameless driver denied being behind the wheel and stated he had lost his licence in October 2014.
Speed camera images revealed the driver to be a large Asian man and checks on DVLA systems showed a likeness to Mahmood’s driving licence photograph. He was arrested last June and even though he eventually admitted being the driver, he denied falsely filling out the Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) forms.
