Former world boxing champion Naseem Hamed has been jailed for dangerous driving after a crash which left another driver severely injured. Hamed, 32, from Dore in Sheffield, was sentenced to 15 months at Sheffield Crown Court after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing. The boxer was also banned from driving for four years.

 

Hamed was at the wheel of his £325,000 McLaren-Mercedes when he crashed at 90mph on Ringinglow Road, Sheffield. Motorist Anthony Burgin spent weeks in hospital after the crash left him with fractures to "every major bone in his body".

 

The court heard how Hamed was anxious to impress businessman Asif Ayub, 46, who was a passenger in the McLaren-Mercedes at the time of the crash. Hamed was showing what his car could do when he crossed a solid white line at a speed of at least 90mph and crashed head-on into a Volkswagen Golf that emerged from a dip in the road.

 

The Golf, driven by 38-year-old Mr Burgin, was propelled backwards by the impact of the collision. The court heard Hamed's car then hit a second vehicle, a Ford Mondeo he had been trying to overtake. The driver of the Mondeo, Michael Wood, described Hamed's overtaking manoeuvre in court as "stupid, suicide, ridiculous".

 

Jailing Hamed on Friday, the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Alan Goldsack said the only possible sentence was custody. "It is far too serious for anything else", he said.

 

The judge added: "As you approached the brow of a hill you could not see what was coming and the near inevitable happened. Your car was in virtually head-on collision with a car driven by Mr Anthony Burgin, with his wife Clare as a passenger. You could easily have killed Mr Burgin."

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4764161.stm

A unanimous (points) decision, I'd say!!:wink3:

8Pity about this......... !

Nassem is a decent guy, I have met him... and had a chat with him for around 30 minutes about everything apart from boxing which he seemed to enjoy...

^Maybe - but he definitely got what he deserved on this occasion. What he did was unbelievably stupid......................................

looking fairly chubby there I'd say

^I thought that, too!! He really seems to have let himself go since he stopped fighting................................