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| Texting death crash peer jailed | Texting death crash peer jailed |
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| A Labour peer who sent and received text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 has been jailed for 12 weeks. | |
| Lord Ahmed was driving his Jaguar when he hit a stationary car in the outside lane of the motorway on Christmas Day 2007. | |
| The driver of the vehicle, Martyn Gombar, 28, was killed. | The driver of the vehicle, Martyn Gombar, 28, was killed. |
| Lord Ahmed, 51, of Rotherham, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court. He had admitted driving dangerously. | Lord Ahmed, 51, of Rotherham, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court. He had admitted driving dangerously. |
| Mr Gombar was Slovakian but was living in Leigh, Greater Manchester, at the time of his death. | Mr Gombar was Slovakian but was living in Leigh, Greater Manchester, at the time of his death. |
| Lord Ahmed was also banned from driving for a year. | |
| The judge sentencing him stressed that the text messaging had finished before the accident took place and was not connected to the fatal incident. |