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Man jailed after throwing hot oil in face of officer
The Chronicle
|October 21, 2025
BURNS LEFT PC’S CHILDREN ‘SHOCKED’
Mohammed Sarfaraz
A VIOLENT taxi driver left a police officer with burns to his face and chest by throwing hot oil at him.
Officers had turned up to arrest Mohammed Sarfaraz when he was found to have a smoking frying pan in his hand.
When PC Christopher Bain entered the kitchen with his taser drawn, having been warned of the potential threat, Sarfaraz swung hot oil from the pan at him and his colleague. Newcastle Crown Court heard PC Bain suffered agonising burns which left his children shocked.
Now Sarfaraz, 45, of Kingston Park Road, Gosforth, who tried to “blackmail” a judge into not giving him a long sentence by saying he would kill himself if he did, has been jailed for nine years.
On January 17 this year, police were looking for him and went to his wife's home in Kenton and she said she believed he was at his parents’ home in Gosforth. His wife then rang him to alert him the police were coming, the court heard.
This story is from the October 21, 2025 edition of The Chronicle.
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