Manchester Evening News
June 21, 2014
A former police officer jailed for four years after killing a father-of-two and maiming his wife in a hit and run is back behind bars after breaching a driving ban THIRTY times.
Mohammed Mian, 35, of Gredle Close, Urmston, who served with the Metropolitan Police, was travelling at twice the speed limit when he ploughed into Steve Campbell, 49, and his wife, Rosemary, 53.
The couple were walking to their Urmston home in the early hours of New Year’s Day when they were hit by a powerful Volvo car driven by Mian, who had already been disqualified from driving twice.
Mian was returning home from a club in Fallowfield where he worked as a doorman.
He was jailed in 2009 after pleading guilty to death by dangerous driving and also given a five year driving ban.
But he has now been jailed for four months and given another 12-month driving disqualification after police caught him driving a green Mercedes on Humphrey Lane, Urmston this week.
As he was sentenced at Trafford Magistrates yesterday, the chairman of the bench said: “Your blatant disregard for court orders is quite frankly astonishing.”
After arresting Mian on Wednesday, officer’s from GMP’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit made further inquiries and established that Mian had breached his ban by driving to work on at least 29 other occasions.
Sgt Lee Westhead of the unit, said: “Mian treated his disqualification with contempt and showed no resmorse for his actions.
“The Unit will not tolerate driving from those persons disqualified having been convicted of causing death or serious injury on the roads of Manchester.
“We will pursue such people endlessly and go to great lengths to gather evidence against them.”
When jailed in 2009 the court was told Mian had his mobile phone in his hand shortly before the accident in Stretford Road.
He was oblivious to flashing signs warning drivers if they exceeded the 30mph limit and failed to stop after the crash.
Mr Campbell was killed almost instantly and his wife, who was in a coma for six days suffered spinal injuries and her left leg had to be amuputated below the knee.
Just months after the fatal collision, but before Mian was sentenced, he was caught speeding in a 30mph zone.