Allister Walker successfully prosecuted Zahid Masood who was jailed at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday 3rd May 2013 for a total of 4 years 9 months for causing the death by dangerous driving of Charlotte Smoker, a nineteen year old air stewardess from Bishop’s Stortford and for perverting the course of justice. The defendant was conducting business on his mobile phone in the outside lane of the M25 and was behind the wheel of a Ford Focus when he collided with Miss Smoker’s Fiat Cinquecento in November 2003. The defendant only had a false provisional licence and was an illegal entrant in the UK. After the collision he fled the country before returning in his true name in 2007. He was arrested in Rochester in November 2012. Read more...