Yusuf, Jawid

Jawid Yusuf was convicted of five counts of false accounting (contrary to section 17 (1) (A) of the Theft Act 1968) on 15 January 2004 at East Hertfordshire Magistrates’ Court. He was fined £80 on each count (making a total fine of £400) and was ordered to pay £150 costs. He did not appeal.

Mr Yusuf applied to the CCRC in February 2009.

Mr Yusuf worked as a pharmacist at a chemist shop in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. He left there in December 2001 to work in another local chemist shop owned another proprietor.

The prosecution alleged that whilst working at both these shops Mr Yusuf falsified prescriptions by adding additional items, forging the doctor’s signature and then claiming payment for the extra items which were not in fact dispensed to the customer.

Having reviewed the case, the CCRC concluded that several issues, including non-disclosure to the defence of material which might have affected the credibility of key witnesses, raised a real possibility that, on a re-hearing of the case, the Crown Court would not uphold Mr Yusuf’s conviction.

The CCRC referred the conviction to the Crown Court in March 2012.

The Crown Court quashed the conviction in October 2012.