The A1 closed for hours, traffic chaos in Newcastle and Gateshead, multiple police vehicles wrecked and seven police officers injured. Multiculturalism is impacting ever more on the North East, plus this case has the added bonus of ‘two-tier justice’.
“On April 9, seven police officers were taken to hospital after being injured in a collision during a pursuit early in the morning, which caused the closure of the A1 in Tyne and Wear in both directions between J73 (Swalwell) and J75 (Denton).”
Most residents of Gateshead and Newcastle must have been impacted in some way by the crash on the A1 on April 9th. It massively impacted all major road routes. After all, this was a serious road traffic incident not an accident, because the guilty driver had committed a series of motoring offences.
“A 20-year-old man has been charged with dangerous driving after seven police officers were injured in a car chase on Tyneside. The crash on the northbound A1 on 9 April involved five police cars and led to the road’s closure. Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, of Sylvia Terrace in Durham, will appear at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.
“He has also been charged with two counts of failing to stop, two counts of not having insurance, and two counts of driving without a licence. Northumbria Police said a woman in her 20s would face no further action in relation to her arrest on suspicion of aiding and abetting dangerous driving. However, she was bailed over suspected drug possession offences.
“The crash near the Derwent Haugh Road junction, on the borders of Gateshead and Newcastle, happened in the early hours of the morning. The seven police officers have all now been discharged from hospital.”
So far, so good: fairly straight forward reporting, but little emphasis on the background of the driver or the multiple offences he had committed or the impact his offences inflicted on the wider community or on local businesses and public transport.
“The incident happened after police tried to stop the car in the Whickham area of Gateshead because of concerns over how it was being driven. It drove off and was later seen in the Swalwell area, with specialist officers from the roads unit beginning the pursuit at around 2.25am.
“The driver of a BMW involved in a pursuit which landed seven police officers in hospital has been bailed, Northumbria Police have confirmed. The A1(M) was closed for several hours on Wednesday between Junction 73 Swalwell and Junction 75 Denton after a crash involving five police vehicles and a BMW M Sport.
“Police had attempted to stop a car in Whickham at around 2am due to concerns of how it was driven. The car was later sighted in Swalwell, with Northumbria Police’s Roads Policing Unit sent to the area. Shortly before 2.30am, police were in pursuit of the BMW when the crash occurred. Five ambulance crews, the Great North Air Ambulance Service, and the Fire Service were all called to the scene. Seven officers were taken to hospital with what were described as non-life threatening injuries.
“Both occupants of the BMW were uninjured, with a man in his 20s arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, two counts of failing to stop when required by police, no insurance, and driving otherwise than in accordance with licence. A woman, also in her 20s, was arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting dangerous driving, possession of a class B drug and possession of a class A drug. On Thursday morning, Northumbria Police confirmed that both have been released on police bail.”
So much time taken up, so many emergency resources and the main arterial route, the A1, closed for hours, and yet the driver gets bail.
Note how casually this was reported in the ‘Echo’; “Having been granted bail pending a court appearance, Azarbonyad admitted continuing to drive on four further occasions, by driving a Hyundai i10 to work at a gym in Newcastle city centre, despite bail conditions telling him not to drive. He will be sentenced at a later date.”
Or this in a different mainstream media outlet; “A Stanley personal trainer was taking a woman home after a first date when his dangerous driving injured seven police officers in a huge crash on the A1. Iran-born Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, of Sylvia Terrace, Stanley, admitted a series of driving offences at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning. These included driving without insurance and without a licence several times following the horror smash which involved a number of police cars.”
Note the wording here, Mazyar Azarbonyad is described lightly as, “A Stanley personal trainer” as if he were a Durham-born individual, “Nothing to see here”.
In fact hardly any mainstream media outlets bothered to mention that Mazyar Azarbonyad came to the UK as a teenager in 2020 and was born in Iran.
Or this equally casual reference, “The Iran-born defendant also confessed to driving four times after the crash – in breach of his bail conditions. He used a Hyundai i10 to go to work at a gym in Newcastle city centre.”
Two-tier justice – although it was admitted that he had broken his bail conditions not once but four times by continuing to drive into central Newcastle to his place of work, he remains out on bail. It seems that bail terms are flexible if you are a member of a ‘protected’ migrant minority. How many local, indigenous British offenders would still be out on the streets for breach of bail conditions?
Migrants appear to follow those British laws and customs that suit them but ignore those that don’t. Integration? Not for them. Two-tier justice? certainly for them.
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Main Image: Yahoo News UK.
Lower Image: Accused Mazyar Azarbonyad who was caught after his date (@im_alandy) and picture of the car accident (uploaded by jf01350- (via Flickr).
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