Pick- up artist has conviction quashed

A self- styled pick- up artist who was jailed over threatening behaviour towards young women has had his conviction quashed on appeal.

Ad nan Ah m ed, who called himself Ad dy A- game in secretly- filmed videos posted online, was convicted of threatening and abusive behaviour for approaching several young women, causing them fear and alarm.

Now 39, he was jailed for two years at Glasgow Sheriff Court in October last year following a trial earlier in the year.

Lawyers for Ah m ed launched an appeal on grounds including that he had been the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

Appeal Court judges agreed he had suffered a miscarriage of justice following improper “crossexamination” of Ahmed by the sheriff after he finished giving his evidence at the trial.

In a written decision published yesterday, Lord Turnbull wrote: “The trial sheriff engaged in an exercise which could only be described as cross- examination.

“The informed and impartial observer would readily have concluded that the sheriff had formed an adverse view on t he credibility of the appellant’s evidence.

“The result was a miscarriage of justice.”