Police officer in hoax kidnap case 'believed threats were genuine'
The phone records of a police officer who allegedly made hoax 999 calls to implicate a man in a fictional terror plot to kidnap a colleague have been revealed in court.
Pc Amar Tasaddiq Hussain, of Yardley, Birmingham, who is suspended from duty, appeared at Stafford Crown court and maintained that he genuinely believed the threats to kidnap one of his fellow officers were real.
Phone records from Pc Hussain's handset and various sim cards in the days leading up to the hoax calls allegedly show the conspiracy between the police officer and two other men, Adil Bashir, 26, of Small Heath, Birmingham, and Muhammed Sheikh, 31, of Bordsley Green, to make the call in order to frame an illegal immigrant who was living in the Black Country.
They all deny two counts of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
The calls took place on September 27 and December 8 last year, the court heard.
The call, which claimed a police officer would be targeted by a 'radical Muslim' with links to Isis called Irfan Ul-Haq sparked a major security alert.
On the second day of the trial at Stafford Crown Court earlier this week, Mr Simon Davis, prosecuting, told the jury that Hussain had confessed to making the 999 call.
The prosecution claims the police officer was trying to frame Mr Ul-Haq, who was an illegal immigrant living in Sandwell Road, Walsall, as he had a 'grudge' against him.
Mark Reece, a police data analyst, gave evidence showing how all three men used handsets and sim cards to allegedly attempt to evade detection.
The trial continues.
