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| PC Amar Hussain jailed for false terror kidnap claim | PC Amar Hussain jailed for false terror kidnap claim |
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| A constable with the West Midlands force who claimed a fellow officer was going to be kidnapped by terrorists has been jailed for seven years. | A constable with the West Midlands force who claimed a fellow officer was going to be kidnapped by terrorists has been jailed for seven years. |
| Amar Tasaddiq Hussain, 29, was involved in making a hoax 999 call which claimed an officer would be abducted by a radical Muslim with links to the so-called Islamic State. | Amar Tasaddiq Hussain, 29, was involved in making a hoax 999 call which claimed an officer would be abducted by a radical Muslim with links to the so-called Islamic State. |
| The call led to the force putting in "unprecedented" measures to protect officers' safety. | The call led to the force putting in "unprecedented" measures to protect officers' safety. |
| Hussain had denied the charges. | Hussain had denied the charges. |
| Judge Michael Chambers QC, at Stafford Crown Court, criticised the former officer, from Yardley, Birmingham, for showing no remorse and pleading not guilty in the face of overwhelming evidence. | |
| Officers believed kidnap attack was 'highly likely' | |
| More on this story and others from Birmingham and the Black Country | |
| Two other Birmingham men, unemployed Adil Bashier, 26, and 31-year-old tutor Muhammed Ali Sheikh, were convicted of the same charges of perverting the course of justice. | |
| The men's trial had heard how, in an unprecedented move, all on the West Midlands force had to call in to report getting home safely due to the threat, which was made on 8 December 2014. | |
| The false call had been made in the hope it would discredit someone Hussain held a grudge against, an official within Dawat-E-Islami, a peaceful Muslim prayer group. |