Reham Baluch, 32, and Saqib Kader, 27, Jailed for 8 Years for Driving at police officer and pedestrians

Reham Baluch, 32, and Saqib Kader, 27, have been jailed after a car was driven at a police officer and pedestrians.

Reham Baluch, 32, of no fixed address was today (Monday 10 December 2018) sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court to seven years in prison for dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified, aggravated taking of a motor vehicle without consent, section 47 assault and attempted section 18 assault.



Saqib Kader, 27,  of Farraday Avenue, Cheetham Hill was sentenced to one year in prison for aggravated taking of a motor vehicle without consent, and he was disqualified from driving for one year.



Baluch and Kader approached a takeaway delivery driver on Kersal Road in Prestwich around 11.20pm on Wednesday 16 May 2018, before hitting and kicking him and stealing his car.



Officers who were attended the scene and were speaking to the victim when his car returned to the scene.



Police Constable Nina Foran, a frontline uniformed response officer from GMP’s Bury borough, approached the vehicle - which was being driven by Reham Baluch - and told him to get out of the car. At this point, Kader was a passenger in the stolen car.



Baluch reversed the vehicle in an attempt to flee the scene, and the car door slammed into PC Foran.



Other members of the public and responding officers were forced to jump out of the way of the vehicle and they narrowly avoided being hit.


Baluch was also sentenced today for a previous incident on Alderglen Road which occurred around 2.30pm on 19 March 2018 in which he drove a vehicle at an officer, causing him to jump out of the way to avoid being run over.