"I WILL TEACH THOSE PIGS A LESSON ONE DAY".He was castigating his fellow officers at the time. The Mail quoted Ghaffur’s former wife thus:
"HE'S CRAZY. Unfortunately, when you are young, you don't see people for what they really are. Either he was good enough to be promoted or he wasn't and I DON'T THINK HE WAS. I THINK HE HAS BENEFITED FROM POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION…The Mail added:
HE OWES AN ETERNAL DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO BRITAIN FOR ALLOWING HIM TO COME HERE, TO SAVE HIM FROM PERSECUTION, AND TOLERATING HIS RACE AND RELIGION. YET THIS IS HOW HE REPAYS SUCH KINDNESS.
You cannot take all the opportunities that have been given to you, all the promotions, and then not accept that one day perhaps you will not rise any further. To turn round just because things aren't going your way and accuse someone of racial discrimination, which is such a dreadful allegation, is cowardly and lazy…
The police wanted Asians in the force and those who joined were being pushed onwards and upwards. I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANY DOUBT THAT TARIQUE BENEFITED FROM HAVING THE RIGHT COLOUR OF SKIN, IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. FAST TRACKING IS WHAT I WOULD CALL IT…
I was expected to be a traditional wife, dressed in a sari, staying at home. It was one rule for him and another for me. I was never allowed out. He would go out to the pub, he didn't bother with prayers and, within six weeks of us marrying, I DISCOVERED HE HAD A MISTRESS… TARIQUE LATER TOLD ME HE NEVER WANTED TO GET MARRIED, HE DID IT ONLY BECAUSE HIS FATHER THREATENED TO KILL HIMSELF".
"Ghaffur, risen to become BRITAIN'S HIGHEST RANKING ASIAN OFFICER, IS LAUNCHING A RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CASE AGAINST HIS EMPLOYERS - THE METROPOLITAN POLICE…
In what seems to be a carefully orchestrated attack, Ghaffur's threat coincides with the industrial tribunal of another high-ranking Asian officer, Commander Shabir Hussain, who claims to have been passed over for further promotion by the Met Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair. Hussain accuses Sir Ian of surrounding himself with a 'golden circle' of white officers.
Deliberate leaks suggest that Ghaffur, whose contract runs out next year, will also accuse his weak and isolated boss of being actively racist…
Outraged at the smear, the almost PATHOLOGICALLY POLITICALLY CORRECT SIR IAN wants to remove Ghaffur from his desk, but has been blocked from doing so…
Indeed, the Home Office view is that Ghaffur, 53, had been promoted as far as his capabilities allow - if not further.
IT IS NOT RACISM THAT HOLDS HIM BACK, BUT ABILITY.
A teenage Ghaffur arrived in Britain with his family in 1972. They were among the many thousands of Asians ejected from Uganda by dictator Idi Amin. His parents could speak only Punjabi…
By the time he met his first wife, a 23-year-old bank clerk, who had been born in Kenya where her father worked for the police, he was going places… They married in March 1984 at the register office in Enfield, north London, where her family lived… Ghaffur, a keen squash player, injured his back on court, but rather than stay at the Stretford marital home with his increasingly estranged wife, he moved into a police house to recuperate.
Mrs Ghaffur says that her in-laws then decided to take the law into their own hands: 'They were worried that if we divorced and I was the only one living in the house then Tarique would forfeit any right to it. I had been at work in the bank and came home to find Ghaffur's father, mother and three brothers had broken in through a back door. They had moved their belongings into the spare room and were even preparing something to eat in the kitchen. THEY TOLD ME THEY WEREN'T GOING TO LET ME STAY IN THE HOUSE AND THAT I HAD TO GET OUT…
I had no option but to call the police. Tarique was an inspector so the officer who came had to be of a higher rank. I thought they dealt with it well. They escorted them out and didn't arrest them. But Tarique wasn't happy when he found out what had happened.'
According to his ex-wife, he bellowed his desire for revenge, describing the colleagues who had attended as 'pigs'. 'It has haunted me, THE FACT THAT HE COULD HAVE SUCH CONTEMPT FOR THE PEOPLE HE WORKED WITH… WHEN I READ OF TARIQUE'S LEGAL CASE, HIS DESIRE FOR REVENGE CAME BACK TO ME. MAYBE NOW TARIQUE IS TEACHING THEM THAT LESSON.'
Mrs Ghaffur obtained a court order barring her husband's family from her home. She also made a formal complaint about her husband's affair to Greater Manchester Police and within a year had divorced him on the grounds of his adultery. Nothing came of her complaint, she believes.
'I THINK THAT WAS BECAUSE HE WAS AN ASIAN POLICE OFFICER. THEY DIDN'T WANT ANY FUSS. TARIQUE LIED, CHEATED AND DECEIVED ME in the worst ways possible… HE WAS OBSESSED WITH MONEY AND RANK for their own sakes, so how can we charge him with bringing qualities such as respect and honour to bear in his job?'…
At least one former Manchester colleague recalls Ghaffur admitting when he was made inspector: 'I'M THE RIGHT COLOUR AT THE RIGHT TIME’…
The Home Office view, we can reveal, is that Ghaffur has hardly sparkled in his role overseeing security preparations for the 2012 London Olympics.
HIS £180,000 SALARY, CBE AND QUEEN'S POLICE MEDAL ARE A CONSIDERABLE CONSOLATION, NEVER MIND A RANK WHICH MOST OFFICERS OF ANY COLOUR OR CREED WOULD ENVY. But the failure to rise further rankles. And HE HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY CAUGHT UP IN THE RACE POLITICS which have dogged the Met's executive level. It culminated in last month's extraordinary suggestion that MEMBERS OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE AUTHORITY WERE RACIST FOR NOT RUBBER STAMPING MORE PROMOTIONS FOR HIM…
Even friends are astounded at Ghaffur's action. Having come to the UK as a teenage refugee, he has risen to become the third most powerful policeman in the country, and yet he is now saying: 'I am a victim of the system’…
A GOOD MANY AT THE YARD DETECT THE GUIDING HAND OF HIS OLD FRIEND, COMMANDER ALI DIZAEI, THE IRANIAN-BORN PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL BLACK POLICE ASSOCIATION…
Ghaffur believed that he would be made Sir Ian's deputy when Blair got the top job in 2005. But that possibility was probably scuppered when Ghaffur, to the complete surprise of his superiors, appeared as an Old Bailey defence witness for Dizaei, who had been charged with fraud and perverting the course of justice. DIZAEI WAS CLEARED AND IS NOW SEEN AS 'UNTOUCHABLE'."
After he was jailed for four years he was dismissed from the Metropolitan Police service.
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