Electronic tag for ‘pillar of Muslim community’

A “PILLAR” of the Muslim community was spared jail after attacking his business partner over an ice cream parlour deal that went sour.

Imran Amin was placed on an electronic tag confining him to his home overnight for 12 weeks, following the attack on Muhammad Mehmood in Lyon Street on November 2.

An earlier trial at Dundee Sheriff Court heard Amin and Mr Mehmood were previously friends who owned the Red Berry ice cream parlour in Crichton Street. But when the business was sold, a verbal agreement to split the proceeds 50/50 went wrong and Amin turned up at Mr Mehmood’s house with two “heavies”.

Amin threatened violence and demanded money before grabbing him by the neck. He then bent back Mr Mehmood’s thumb, demanded the logbook and keys for his car and tried to forcibly remove them from the motor.

Amin, 41, of Mayfield Grove, denied assault and robbery, but was convicted by a jury of an altered charge of assault with intent to rob.

Defence solicitor Anne Duffy described Amin as a “pillar of the community” who worked with youngsters at his mosque.

Sheriff Linda Smith told him: “You have a place in the local community where you are respected but that respect has been flaunted.”

She ordered his sentence not start until June 16 – the end of Ramadan and the traditional fasting.

Imran Amin.