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7:39pm Friday 15th August 2008
A fraudster who impersonated learner drivers to take theory tests for them was jailed today.
Illegal immigrant Palwinder Johal - who police said was part of the country's biggest driving test fraud - sat theory tests at centres across the UK before selling on the certificates for £300 each.
Oxford Crown Court heard the 24-year-old was caught by police in Oxford in April while attempting to sit a Construction Industry Board test in Blackbird Leys.
Johal, of Warwick Crescent, Hayes, West London, admitted dishonestly trying to obtain property by deception and two counts of fraud.
He asked for a further charge of conspiracy and one of possessing a false UK driving licence to be taken into consideration.
Alex Durran, prosecuting, said Johal took tests 21 times in 20 different places across the south of England.
Jerome Silva, defending, said: "He was not a major player in this conspiracy. He was a small fish."
Jailing him for two years and recommending that he is deported to his native India, Judge Anthony King said: "You have pleaded guilty to significant and important frauds.
"It strikes at public safety because those who appear to have passed tests when they are not entitled to have done so are a potential danger."
Speaking after the case, Insp Jim Strachan said Johal had tried to take a driving test in Oxford in October 2006.
Joe, Marston Road says...
8:57pm Fri 15 Aug 08
Gel wrote:Sorry,
And hopefully goes striaght from jail to airport without all those bleeding hearts calling him a victim. He's a criminal, contributing nothing, just taking & costing like so many of his brothers at Campsfield House.
Steve, Oxford says...
9:42pm Fri 15 Aug 08
John, Oxford says...
9:52pm Fri 15 Aug 08
John, Oxford says...
9:56pm Fri 15 Aug 08
Mr Ison, England says...
10:02pm Fri 15 Aug 08
david cameron-young, says...
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gary, oxford says...
10:32pm Fri 15 Aug 08
Mr Ison, England says...
11:06pm Fri 15 Aug 08
DanOxford, says...
1:43am Sat 16 Aug 08
John wrote:That's because Gabriel Chamberlain had a long history of drug abuse, burgalary and car theft from Oxford residents, and was a scumbag all along, and not some sort of 'folk hero' as idolised by the Lefty liberal Eco- Nazis, the anti- improvement and development reactionaries and the over- privileged and under- experienced in reality students who championed his 'protest'- which cost the tax payer £12,000 and failed to result in a conviction due to 'lack of witnesses'.
sorry, there are 2 articles about the car crime. This one does have details of people arrested... http://www.oxfordmai l.net/news/headlines /display.var.2426695 .0.crackdown_cuts_ca r_crime.php Still doesn't allow comments to be made though?
Hunt, oxford says...
2:59am Sat 16 Aug 08
Ex-pate, Down Under says...
4:55am Sat 16 Aug 08
ejs, Doha, Qatar says...
11:40am Sat 16 Aug 08
DanOxford, says...
12:02pm Sat 16 Aug 08
Hunt wrote:That's not the point is it?
As long as it's an immigrant or black or any ethnic minority issue , the defenders of the faith and what not fly into action... Do you know how many "white" folks from our shores make other countries their home? ... i was in Singapore and Malaysia recently, plenty of ex-pates their
Babs, Oxford says...
12:17pm Sat 16 Aug 08
Mr Ison, England says...
12:28pm Sat 16 Aug 08
Tom, says...
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Mr Ison, England says...
2:58pm Sat 16 Aug 08
mandy, la la land says...
4:25pm Sat 16 Aug 08
Tom, Spanking Mandy says...
4:35pm Sat 16 Aug 08
mandy wrote:I love it when a women is sarcastic.
multiculturalism and mass immigration has been great for the u.k.
steve, oxford says...
9:49am Thu 21 Aug 08
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Gel, Nr Wantage says...
8:50pm Fri 15 Aug 08
He's a criminal, contributing nothing, just taking & costing like so many of his brothers at Campsfield House.