Shameless taxi driver who boasted to his passengers about being pulled over for speeding – before then mowing down and killing pedestrian just 16 minutes after he was let off by police is jailed for six years [Video]

14:49 EDT 03 May 2024, updated 18:21 EDT 03 May 2024

A speeding taxi driver who killed a pedestrian just 16 minutes after being let off with a warning by police over his driving was jailed for almost seven years yesterday.

Shakoor Ahmed, 46, was told by a judge he had behaved with ‘gross arrogance’ on the roads on the night he crashed into 32-year-old landscape gardener Dan Beames.

Moments earlier, Ahmed had been carrying a passenger when he was pulled in by two police officers who gave him a formal warning for speeding.

The officers had charitably decided not to charge him with the offence because of the impact a conviction might have on his sixteen-year taxi driving career.

In bodycam footage released after the sentencing, an officer let Ahmed off with a warning, after telling him: ‘Just don’t do it again. I don’t want you or anyone else to get hit or hurt.