May 2014
Nuneaton pervert catcher’s latest prosecution
A MAN who turned up for what he believed was to be a meeting in Nuneaton with an under-age girl has denied dangerously driving at the man who had snared him.
Pervez Akhtar pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following sexual grooming.
Akhtar, aged 56, of Church Road, Lye, Stourbridge, had driven to Nuneaton in June last year believing he was going to meet an under-age girl called Jodie for sexual activity.
But instead he was confronted by self-styled paedophile hunter Stinson Hunter who had set up a ‘sting’ by posing as Jodie in on-line conversations.
Stinson Hunter suffered injuries, including a broken leg, as Akhtar tried to get away.
But Akhtar pleaded not guilty to a further charge of causing serious injury to Stinson Hunter by driving his Renault Meganne dangerously in Cedar Road, Nuneaton.
It is alleged he had driven into Stinson Hunter, knocking him up onto the bonnet of the car before he fell into the road.
Prosecutor Stephen Bailey said a trial on the dangerous driving charge would take ‘a couple of days.’
But he asked for the prosecution to be given time to review the case and to decide whether to ask for it to go to trial.
Judge Richard Griffith-Jones agreed, and in the meantime ordered a pre-sentence report to be prepared on Akhtar, who was granted bail.
The judge told him: “There is some uncertainty about whether you will be tried by a jury.
“You are going to have to be sentenced anyway for the matter you have pleaded guilty to, and you will be seen by a probation officer for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.”
But Judge Griffith-Jones warned Akhtar: “The fact that I’m giving you bail at all is not a sign as to the sentence. Whoever sentences you will have all options open to them, including jail.”
