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Wajif Rafique faces jail this month after pleading guilty to making up fictitious names and providing police with them, to save the real people who had sped from getting the fines.
The former security guard saved seven hundred and fifty people from tickets has pleaded guilty on forty three counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice. He is believed to have netted around seventy five thousand pounds, after receiving payments from the speeders for between one hundred and three hundred pounds.
The jobless man said that he was acting like a robin hood to the people and did not make a penny from his actions, he said: If I had wanted to make a vast amount of money out of it I could have done. I could have made thousands and thousands,' he said. I like to do people a favour and I started all this because it happened to me. Three points meant a lot to me. I did this for myself and, because it worked, the word started to spread. I am the main man, but I did not gain any money. My house is rented and my car is worth 250. Would I be driving that car if I had made a lot of money? I did it for the benefit of the people.'
Operation Amethyst was implemented by the police, and for three months they watched Rafique and others that they believed to be involved, finally arresting them. Thirteen drivers have also been arrested for perverting the course of justice and required to do community service as a punishment.
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