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Hamed 'tagged and released'

01/09/2006

Former world boxing champion Naseem Hamed has been released ahead of schedule after receiving a 15-month sentence for dangerous driving in May.

But the 32-year-old has been fitted with an electronic tag as part of the prison service's home detention curfew (HDC) scheme.

The boxer, of Dore, Sheffield, admitted dangerous driving in May 2005 after his £320,000 Mercedes McLaren was involved in a head-on collision with a VW Golf driven by Anthony Burgin, 38.

The court was told that Mr Burgin suffered fractures to "every major bone in his body", while his wife Clare, a passenger in the car, was also injured.

Hamed said that the Peak District crash had been part of a "stupid risk" he had taken while demonstrating the prowess of his car to his passenger, driving 90mph on the wrong side of the carriageway into a blind dip on Ringinglow Road, where he collided with Mr Burgin coming the other way.

Speaking after news had broken that the former prize fighter had been released 16 weeks into a 15-month sentence, a statement from Mr Burgin said: "What happened to my wife and I was deeply distressing and nearly destroyed our lives.

"I am shocked that after such a serious accident Mr Hamed has been released after less than four months."

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