A Labour peer, who was jailed last month for sending text messages just before a fatal road accident, was freed on Thursday by the Court of Appeal. Nazir Ahmed, 51, was sent to prison for 12 weeks on February 25 for dangerous driving after a collision which killed a Slovakian on a motorway in Yorkshire, on Christmas Day in 2007 ...

Labour peer Lord Ahmed was jailed for 12 weeks on Wednesday for dangerous driving after a court heard he sent and received a series of text messages minutes before a fatal accident on a motorway. Lord Nazir Ahmed, 51, was involved in a collision which left a Slovakian man dead on the motorway near Rotherham, in Yorkshire, on Christmas Day ...

Labour peer Lord Ahmed was on Wednesday jailed for 12 weeks for dangerous driving after a court heard he sent and received a series of text messages minutes before a fatal accident on the M1. The accident, which took place on Christmas Day in 2007, saw Lord Nazir Ahmed's car involved in a collision which left a Slovakian man ...

A Muslim peer who helped defuse a diplomatic dispute with Sudan last year has admitted sending mobile phone texts while driving, just before he was involved in a fatal car crash. Lord Nazir Ahmed admitted on Monday to charges of dangerous driving over the incident on Christmas Day last year, in which a man died when the peer's Jaguar ...