AN INSURANCE AGENT CARRIED A SPRING-LOADED COSH BE

AN INSURANCE AGENT CARRIED A SPRING-LOADED COSH BECAUSE HE WAS
AFRAID OF BEING MUGGED, A COURT HEARD.

KHALID KHAN,22, HAD THE METAL WEAPON IN HIS CAR WHEN STOPPED BY
POLICE IN MARLBOROUGH CRESCENT, ACTON, ON MAY 12 LAST YEAR, SAID MR
DEREK INMAN, PROSECUTING.

HE TOLD POLICE ‘I’VE GOT SOMETHING YOU MAY THINK IS AN OFFENSIVE
WEAPON’, COUNSEL SAID.

‘I’M AN INSURANCE AGENT AND I’VE GOT TO COLLECT MONEY.

MY
FRIEND GOT MUGGED LAST WEEK’,KAHN CONTINUED.

HE COLLECTED UP TO #500 AT A TIME FOR REFUGE INSURANCE,AND HAD
BEGUN TO CARRY THE COSH AFTER SEEING HIS COLLEAGUE’S INJURIES AFTER HE
WAS HIT IN THE FACE, KHAN SAID.

HE WAS A KARATE STUDENT, AND HAD BOUGHT THE WEAPON PREVIOUSLY
THROUGH A MARTIAL ARTS CATALOGUE ACTON CROWN COURT HEARD.

‘THIS LOOKS TO ME LIKE A CATALOGUE FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO EQUIP
A PRIVATE ASSASSINATION SQUAD’, MR RECORDER FORBES COMMENTED AFTER
SEEING THE ARRAY OF SOLID METAL WEAPONS AVAILABLE.

MR ELROY CAXTON, DEFENDING SAID ‘VERY STUPIDLY, HE TOOK THE COSH
FROM HIS KITBAG AND CARRIED IT AROUND’.

FINING KHAN, NOW UNEMPLOYED, OF LEANDER ROAD, NORTHOLT, #75,
AFTER HE PLEADED GUILTY TO POSSESSING AN OFFENSIVE WEAPON, MR RECORDER
FORBES TOLD HIM ‘THIS IS A PARTICULARLY FEARSOME OFFENSIVE WEAPON’

ENDS.