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A barrister from West Yorkshire who plotted a revenge attack with her “career criminal” client has been jailed for more than three years.<\/b><\/p>\n
Samreen Akhtar had represented Tabish Ali, who had been shot and injured in Blacker Road in Huddersfield on 14 September 2021. <\/p>\n
The following day, the 38-year-old barrister, of Sufton Street, Huddersfield, was recorded on a telephone call to Ali putting forward a plan to find the person responsible for the shooting so they could be caused serious injuries, according to West Yorkshire Police.<\/p>\n
Akhtar was convicted of encouraging or assisting the commission of an indictable offence, namely inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent.<\/p>\n
At Manchester Crown Court on Monday, she was given a prison term of three years and three months.<\/p>\n
Police said Ali was part of a drugs gang and was later charged with the murder of Jamal Nedd.<\/p>\n
Nedd had been shot and killed outside his Huddersfield home as he was driving his mother to work on 19 December 2020. <\/p>\n
Ali, of Clare Road, Cleckheaton, was charged with his murder in 2021 and later convicted and given a life sentence along with two other men in July 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n