Smash victim was former drug dealer jailed after 130mph police car chase
A MAN who died alongside two others in a powerful Audi involved in the crash had been formerly jailed for 36 months in November 2016 after he was involved in a 130mph police chase.
Dashcam footage from a police car last year was said to show officers chasing Kasar Jehangir as he and a passenger ditched bags of heroin on a motorway.
Officers drove through clouds of dust as the drugs were dumped from an Audi before finally catching up with the pair. Jehangir reportedly refused to stop as he drove on the southbound carriageway of the M6.
The chase, in July last year, began in Penkridge, Staffordshire, in the early hours of the morning.
Police eventually stopped the Audi near Walsall and arrested Jehangir and the passenger.
They were forced to close motorway to retrieve nearly grammes of heroin.
Jehangir admitted the 35 dangerous driving and possession with intent to supply Class A drugs in November last year. He also pleaded guilty to a separate charge of dangerous driving committed in Wolverhampton in 2015.
He received a 36-month sentence for the drugs charge and an 11-month concurrent term for driving offences. He was also banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to pass an extended test before getting his licence back. After he was jailed police said Jehangir had put “many lives at risk” with his “dangerous highspeed driving”.
All the occupants of the Audi involved in the crash were from Small Heath. Police have so far refused to say who was driving the vehicle.
Crash survivor Zakkria Khan’s mother, Naheed Khan, 59, said that her son had been a passenger in the Audi, which crossed the central reservation.
She denied claims that the group were racing or speeding in the car, which had a top speed of 155mph.
“A friend of mine was returning from her Christmas party and saw Zakk in the back of the car when it went past shortly before the accident,” she said. She added it was driving normally and wasn’t racing. They must have been on their way home when it happened.