A judge has called for an investigation into possible charges of perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice after sentencing a takeaway worker for wounding a colleague.

Adnan Azeem, 25, of Otley Road, Undercliffe, Bradford, was given a suspended eight-month prison sentence by Judge Roger Scott today after he admitted unlawfully wounding Omar Khan during an incident at the Hafeez Takeaway last July.

Bradford Crown Court heard that kitchen assistant Azeem lost his temper after challenging other staff about offensive telephone calls which his wife had received.

Prosecutor Gerald Hendron said Azeem was angry after speaking to his wife and flew into a temper. He was said to have started throwing items from a table including a meat knife which struck Mr Khan in the stomach causing a four-centimetre deep wound.

Azeem, who had no previous convictions, will be subject to supervision for the next 12 months and Judge Scott warned him that he faced eight months in jail if he breached the order in the next year.

But Judge Scott noted at the start of the hearing that Azeem's guilty plea to wounding had been accepted after the complainant and other witnesses had gone back on their statements.

After sentencing Azeem the judge directed that the case should be further investigated and should be referred to the Director Public Prosecutions for consideration of charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and perjury.

In sentencing Azeem the judge told him: "A weapon was used. The injury was not particularly serious and all that can be said on the basis of plea is that you lost your temper and threw a lot of things around including a knife which by atrocious bad luck happened to stab somebody in the stomach to a depth of four centimetres."

by Michael Black

6:06pm Friday 9th May 2008

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