Bracknell’s former mayor has responded to her sentence for perverting the course of justice, asserting that evidence against her and her rapist son was ‘doctored’.
The former mayor, Naheed Ejaz spoke out before she was sent to jail last week together with her son, the former Bracknell taxi driver Diwan Khan.
In a two minute video posted by journalist Farid Qureshi of Ari News but originating from Naheed Ejaz’ social media, she said: “Any evidence presented in the court against my son has been doctored.
“Sadly the system is here to protect the criminals and not the victims. My son is being convicted for his religion, his age, his ethnicity, and his gender.”
But the jury did not agree. In January, taxi driver Diwan Khan was convicted of child rape and his mother was convicted of perverting the course of justice by concealing the evidence of that rape. On Thursday April 30, Mr Khan was sentenced to 12 years at Winchester Crown Court and his mother was sentenced to three years.
In the video, filmed on the precincts of Winchester Crown Court, Mrs Ejaz says:
“I am at Winchester Crown Court today, ready to be sentenced for something I have not done.
“And all I can describe this whole case is the British injustice.
“I cannot go into the details of what has happened – there will be another day for all that.
“But rest assured, neither myself nor my son have done anything.
“My crime is that I was a Labour mayor and I’ve been convicted for my position, for my ethnicity, for my religion.
“My son is being convicted for his religion, his age, his ethnicity, and his gender.
“We have been victim of a false allegation – blackmail – and sadly the system is here to protect the criminals and not the victims of that.
“Any evidence presented in the court against my son has been doctored, has been planted, has been withheld.
“In Britain, we live in this bubble where we think that the system is very fair and if we live a proper life and follow the rules that we would get justice.
“Sadly that is not true. I have found it to my detriment and the cost of my life.”
The victim of Mrs Ejaz’ son was in year 10. After being drugged and raped she dropped out of school, failed all her GCSE’s and attempted suicide.
According to one witness, the sentencing hearing was so harrowing, that at the end, the court emptied in complete silence.
