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A member of Britain's House of Lords has been jailed for 12 weeks for dangerous driving after a court heard he sent and received a series of text messages minutes before a fatal accident on a motorway.
Lord Nazir Ahmed, 51, was involved in a collision which left a Slovakian man dead on the motorway near Rotherham, in Yorkshire, on Christmas Day in 2007.
The crash happened only weeks after Ahmed and a fellow Muslim peer, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, travelled to Sudan to secure the release of a British teacher jailed for insulting Islam by naming a teddy bear after the Prophet Muhammad.
