Shofiqul Hussain, 33, has been sentenced to ten years in prison after fleeing the scene of a collision in Hackney, caused by his reckless driving.
He was apprehended four months after the crash with over £200,000 worth of drugs in his possession according to the Metropolitan Police.
Mr Hussain collided with a taxi after running a red light while driving a rented BMW on Wick Lane, Hackney, on 30 June 2019. The taxi driver and his three passengers were all critically injured.
Mr Hussain fled the scene and when police searched the area they found no trace of him. He ignored a public appeal for the driver to turn themselves in, but was arrested four months later after an investigation identified him as the driver.
Detective Inspector José-Paulo Qureshi, who led the investigation, said: “It was sheer luck this collision didn’t result in a fatality.”
Police who searched the Essex flat where he was staying at the time of his arrest found over £200,000 worth of cannabis, cocaine, MDMA and heroin.
In a hearing in February 2020, Mr Hussain pleaded guilty to “multiple counts of possession with intent to supply drugs and causing serious injury by dangerous driving,” according to a press release from the Met. He was sentenced in Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday 5 March.
“I am very pleased with the sentence handed down and that a dangerous driver and drug supplier has been removed from our roads and communities,” Det Insp Qureshi said after the trial. “A significant amount of drugs will now not be sold on the streets of London.”
