Surgeon Naseer Ahmad leaving court after he escaped his second driving ban - arguing that being forced to get the bus would put patients’ lives at risk.
Naseer Ahmad, 42, pictured, had already escaped a driving ban last year under the totting up procedure after claiming he needed his car to get to hospitals quickly for life saving operations. But just months later he was caught driving his Mercedes at 68mph on a 50mph stretch of the M60 motorway near Manchester - so the consultant vascular surgeon Ahmad used his family instead to argue 'exceptional hardship'.
Despite already having 12 points on his licence Ahmad - also a school governor - said disqualification would mean him having to get the bus to work and could cost him his job leaving him unemployed with a wife who only 'occasionally works as a pharmacist'. He said as a result he would struggle to pay the mortgage on his family’s £300,000 home in Gatley, and also pay for feeding and clothing their three secondary school children.
At Manchester magistrates court, Ahmad who works for Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, admitted speeding but a driving ban was waived after JPs warned him to be ‘very careful in the future.’
