‘I thought passers by trying to save man’s life were a couple of drunks,’ says Iman Qari Abassi

An elderly Imam who drove ran over a man lying in the middle of the road told a court he did not stop when he saw two men warning him of the hazard as he thought they were drunk. Qari Abassi, 72, was making his way to a mosque in Southall Broadway, west London, to lead early morning prayers when he ran over and killed Harvinder Singh, 49, on 4 May 2021. Two men making their way home from work…