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Daily Mirror
27-06-2025
- Daily Mirror
Mechanic crushed by falling car as he prayed on break at garage
Mohammed Hamad was working as a mechanic at a garage in Liverpool when a car fell on him, leaving him with a broken leg, three broken bones in his spine, five broken ribs and a broken pelvis A mechanic spent four months in hospital with agonising injuries after a car suddenly fell on him during his break. The man sustained multiple severe fractures in the incident at Car Spa and Tyres Ltd in Kensington, Liverpool on November 23, 2022, a court heard. Mohammed Hamad, 56, from the Toxteth area of the city, was employed as a mechanic at the garage at the time, and was working on a vehicle that had been elevated on a two-post lift. But neither swivel arm on one of the lifting columns was locked into position, and as Mr Hamad took a break to pray, the car fell from the lift, crushing him beneath and causing multiple serious fractures, reports the Liverpool Echo. He was taken to the NHS Aintree Hospital, where he was found to have a broken leg, three broken bones in his spine, five broken ribs and a broken pelvis. Mr Hamad spent four months in hospital because of his injuries, and has been left highly dependent upon his wife, and others, to carry out even simple daily tasks. It is unlikely he will be able to work again. A probe by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Car Spa & Tyres Ltd had failed to put in place a safe system of work, or to sufficiently train their staff, in the proper, and safe operation of the lifting equipment. The company was found guilty by the jury of breaching regulation 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. It was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs at a hearing at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on June 25. After the hearing, HSE inspector David Bellis said: "This was a very serious incident, and it is fortunate nobody was killed as a result. "If Mr Hamad had been suitably trained in the use of the two-post lift, the company had a suitable system of work in place and the swivel arms had been positioned correctly and locked into place this incident would have been avoided. "The HSE take all accidents seriously, especially those that could have been easily prevented, and will not hesitate to prosecute, whenever it is appropriate'. The prosecution was brought by HSE enforcement lawyer Karen Park and paralegal officer Gabrielle O'Sullivan. The Mirror has approached Car Spa & Tyres Ltd for comment. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a public body responsible for ensuring the regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare in Britain. Set up by the Government in 1975, the HSE has the power to bring employers before the courts when it believes serious breaches have taken place.
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Yahoo
Garage worker crushed by falling car while taking his break
A garage worker spent four months in hospital after he was crushed by a car that fell onto him while he was praying on his break. Liverpool Magistrates' Court this week heard how the man suffered multiple serious fractures in the incident at Car Spa & Tyres Ltd on Marvin Street, Kensington on November 23, 2022, the Liverpool Echo reported. Mohammed Hamad, 56, from Toxteth, was working as a mechanic at the Marvin Street premises of Car Spa & Tyres Ltd at the time. READ MORE: Glastonbury fans say festival is 'robbing them' after seeing price of pints this year READ MORE: Emergency alert will blast from every UK phone for 10 seconds this year He was working on a vehicle which had been raised on a two-post lift but neither swivel arm on one of the lifting columns was locked into position. As Mr Hamad took a break to pray, the car fell from the lift, crushing him beneath and causing multiple serious fractures. He was taken to Aintree Hospital, where he was found to have a broken leg, three broken bones in his spine, five broken ribs and a broken pelvis. Mr Hamad spent four months in hospital because of his injuries. He has been left highly dependent upon his wife, and others, to carry out even simple daily tasks. It is unlikely he will be able to work again. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Car Spa & Tyres Ltd, had failed to put in place a safe system of work, or to sufficiently train their staff, in the proper, and safe operation of the lifting equipment. The company was found guilty by the jury of breaching regulation 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. It was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs at a hearing at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on June 25. After the hearing, HSE inspector David Bellis said: "This was a very serious incident, and it is fortunate nobody was killed as a result. "If Mr Hamad had been suitably trained in the use of the two-post lift, the company had a suitable system of work in place and the swivel arms had been positioned correctly and locked into place this incident would have been avoided. "The HSE take all accidents seriously, especially those that could have been easily prevented, and will not hesitate to prosecute, whenever it is appropriate'. The prosecution was brought by HSE enforcement lawyer Karen Park and paralegal officer Gabrielle O'Sullivan. The ECHO has approached Car Spa & Tyres Ltd for comment. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain's national regulator for workplace health and safety. It works to prevent work-related death, injury and ill health through regulatory actions.
BBC News
27-06-2025
- BBC News
Liverpool garage fined after car crushes worker as he prayed
A mechanic has been left "unable to do simple daily tasks" after a car suspended from a vehicle lift fell on top of him as he prayed, a court heard. The 56-year-old victim, named as Mohammed Hamad by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), suffered a broken leg, three fractures to his spine, five broken ribs and a broken pelvis and spent four months in hospital. The HSE prosecuted the garage, Car Spa & Tyres Ltd in Liverpool, after the accident on 23 November 2022. The firm, based in Marvin Street, Kensington, was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday after being convicted of breaching health and safety rules by a jury. The HSE said Mr Hamad, from Toxteth in Liverpool, was working on a car raised up on a two-post lift when he took a break to pray. An investigation concluded that two swivel arms on one of the columns were not locked into position, and the vehicle fell onto Mr Hamad. Inspectors found the garage had failed to put in place a safe system of work, or to sufficiently train their staff in the safe operation of lifting than two years on, Mr Hamad is still "highly dependent" on his wife, is unable to carry out simple daily tasks and is unlikely to be ever able to work again, the HSE inspector David Bellis said: "This was a very serious incident, and it is fortunate nobody was killed as a result."If Mr Hamad had been suitably trained in the use of the two-post lift, the company had a suitable system of work in place and the swivel arms had been positioned correctly and locked into place this incident would have been avoided." Listen to the best of BBC Radio Merseyside on Sounds and follow BBC Merseyside on Facebook, X, and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
The Independent
23-05-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Barber becomes fourth man from pro-Islamic State WhatsApp group to be jailed
An Iraqi-born barber jailed for four years for sending terrorist propaganda videos is the fourth man from a pro- Islamic State WhatsApp group to be sentenced, it can now be reported. Mohammed Hamad, 30, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court, to two counts of disseminating terrorist publications from the so-called Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh. At his sentencing hearing on Friday, the court heard Hamad was in a WhatsApp group with people who shared his beliefs and support for IS, described as a 'terrorist organisation that encourages and glorifies religious and political violence'. Also in the group was Roshman Saaed, 30, who was jailed for 12 years after he was found guilty following a trial in Birmingham last year of six counts of dissemination of a terrorist publication – three of which were shared to the same messaging group – and one count of entering into a terrorist funding arrangement. Tshko Mohamad, 33, from West Bromwich, was jailed for seven years after he was convicted of entering into a terrorist funding arrangement and Omar Ahmadi, 24, from Sheffield, was jailed for five years and seven months after pleading guilty to the same offence. Their convictions could not be reported until restrictions were lifted on Friday. David Earl, prosecuting, said Hamad had come to the UK illegally from Iraqi Kurdistan in 2016. He told authorities his life would be in danger and he would be arrested if he returned to his home country, the court heard. Hamad said he had been a student of preacher Mullah Shwan, who he said used to teach him the Koran but had recently 'joined Daesh'. He told interviewers: 'Because I was his student, police called me to attend a meeting so I've run away for my life.' The court heard in June 2022 Mohamad sent a voicenote to Saaed telling him to set up the group with 'trusted brothers of the same belief and agenda'. The group, which included Hamad, was set up later that day with the introductory message: 'Swearing by the almighty Allah, we have given a pledge of allegiance to almighty Allah that we will come to you under the flag of the Islamic State caliphate in whatever hole you are in this world. 'Otherwise we will, by Allah, separate your head from your body.' Hamad shared a 'pro-Islamic State mindset' with others in the group, the court heard. One video shared by another user showed a shackled soldier on fire with the caption: 'It contains roasting. It is very tasty.' The court heard Hamad sent two videos in the group. Mr Earl said the first, sent on December 9 2022, showed someone who claimed to be a student of Mullah Shwan, who appeared in numerous IS videos before he was killed, alongside other IS fighters, in 2015. The video referred to soldiers of the so-called Islamic State and to 'brothers' being skilled in 'IED', meaning improvised explosive devices, Mr Earl said. A second video was sent by Hamad on January 18 and showed three prisoners being beheaded in the street. In a speech before the beheading, the man in the video said he was acting in revenge for an attack on Muslim people and promised: 'We will slaughter you one by one.' Mr Earl said: 'The videos were sent intending them to be a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.' The group was discovered in March 2023 when Ahmadi was arrested at Stansted Airport on his way to Turkey, with £7,000 hidden in baby milk powder tins. When Hamad, who had a Kurdish Sorani interpreter in the dock, was arrested at his home in Wavertree, Liverpool, in March last year, he told officers: 'I lost my phone a long time ago. I want a solicitor.' Kate O'Raghallaigh, defending Hamad, said: 'The court has seen evidence which is entirely consistent with this man being, in his real life, consistently a hard-working local barber in Liverpool who is not religious, not devout, leads a typical western lifestyle, attends nightclubs and so forth.' Judge Neil Flewitt KC asked: 'Doesn't it rather beg the question, which is the real life?' Photographs of Hamad at social events, including his own wedding, were submitted to the court along with a letter from his wife, who sat in the public gallery. Sentencing, Judge Flewitt said: 'It is said that you live a characteristic western lifestyle, with many gay and lesbian friends, respecting everyone equally. 'On that basis, it is submitted that these offences represent an aberration in your life and undermine any suggestion that you are a committed ideologue. 'I have some difficulty with that submission because another interpretation of that material is that it demonstrates the hypocrisy of a person who is willing publicly to embrace a western lifestyle while privately supporting a terrorist organisation whose objective is to destroy it.' Detective Superintendent Annie Miller, from Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands, said: 'It's clear all these men were involved in supporting Islamic State. 'The group chat was used to promote propaganda and arrange to raise money in the UK to then send to IS to support their activities. 'It is entirely unacceptable to promote terrorism and we will not hesitate to investigate online behaviour or content which breaches terrorism or other criminal legislation.'
BBC News
23-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Liverpool barber shared IS beheadings video on WhatsApp group
A barber who admitted sending propaganda videos from the organisation calling itself Islamic State (IS) to a WhatsApp group has been Mohammed Hamad was arrested at his Liverpool home in March 2024, he claimed to have "lost my phone a long time ago".Liverpool Crown Court heard one of the videos he shared, in January 2023, was of three prisoners being beheaded in a 30-year-old, who on Tuesday pleaded guilty to two counts of disseminating terrorist publications from the self-styled IS group, was sentenced to four years in prison. Prosecutor David Earl told the sentencing hearing that Hamad, who was born in Iraq, came to the UK illegally from Iraqi Kurdistan in told authorities his life would be in danger were he to return home, and he also claimed he would face court heard Hamad said he studied the Quran with preacher Mulla Shwan, but that the latter had recently "joined Daesh".Daesh is the Arabic name for the group calling itself Islamic movement took over huge swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, drawing notoriety for its record of as a terrorist group by the UK government, IS was driven out of power in said the group was "down but not out".After he was arrested, Hamad told police: "Because I was [Mulla Shwan's] student, police called me to attend a meeting so I've run away for my life." Video footage The court heard he was part of a WhatsApp group, set up in June 2022, which pledged allegiance to court heard the group had an introductory message of "Swearing by the almighty Allah, we have given a pledge of allegiance to almighty Allah that we will come to you under the flag of the Islamic State caliphate in whatever hole you are in this world."Otherwise we will, by Allah, separate your head from your body."One video, shared by another user, showed a shackled soldier who was on court also heard that Hamad first shared a video within the Whatsapp group in December 2022. It referred to IS fighters being skilled in using improvised explosive devices (IED).A month later, he sent another video, showing the beheading of three followed a speech from a man who said he was acting in revenge for an attack on Muslims, promising: "We will slaughter you one by one."Mr Earl said: "The videos were sent intending them to be a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism." 'Hypocrisy' When Hamad, who had an interpreter with him in the dock, was arrested at his home in Wavertree, he told officers: "I lost my phone a long time ago. I want a solicitor."Kate O'Raghallaigh, defending, said there was "evidence which is entirely consistent with this man being, in his real life, consistently a hard-working local barber in Liverpool".She described Hamad as a man who was "not religious, not devout" and who somebody who "attends nightclubs and so forth".Passing sentence, Judge Flewitt said: "It is said that you live a characteristic Western lifestyle, with many gay and lesbian friends, respecting everyone equally."On that basis, it is submitted that these offences represent an aberration in your life and undermine any suggestion that you are a committed ideologue."But he said he had "some difficulty with that submission, because another interpretation of that material is that it demonstrates the hypocrisy of a person who is willing publicly to embrace a Western lifestyle while privately supporting a terrorist organisation whose objective is to destroy it".In addition to jailing Hamad for four years, the judge also imposed restrictions upon him for 10 years under counter-terrorism legislation. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Merseyside on Sounds and follow BBC Merseyside on Facebook, X, and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
