{"id":560112,"date":"2026-05-01T07:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560112\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:02:15","slug":"former-bracknell-forest-mayor-naheed-ejaz-and-rapist-son-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560112\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bracknell Forest mayor Naheed Ejaz and rapist son jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court was told Khan has a long criminal history and was jailed for two years for possessing with intent to supply cocaine in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ejaz, who had never offended before, arrived in the UK from Pakistan in 1984 and later fled an abusive marriage, the court heard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Khan admitted perverting the course of justice but denied rape. Ejaz had denied perverting the course of justice. Both were convicted of those charges in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following Ejaz and Khan&#8217;s convictions, Bracknell Forest Council said it removed a official mayoral portrait of Ejaz at its Time Square headquarters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said on Thursday that it will carry out an investigation into how Ejaz and Khan held taxi licences. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Given the gravity and seriousness of their crimes, it is right that we carry out an investigation, which will go through the relevant governance process,&#8221; Halliwell added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We cannot comment any further on the investigation until it is concluded later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the meantime, we&#8217;d again like to express that our sincere and deepest thoughts are with the very brave young victim, her family and her friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court was told Khan has a long criminal history and was jailed for two years for possessing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}