Weekend success for Newark response team following double charge

A suspected dangerous driver and a burglary suspect were charged following separate stops by Newark’s response team over the weekend.

Hardi Mohamad and Daimian Temple both appeared in court on Monday (18 November) after being arrested on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

Newark response officers detained suspect number one before the first hour of the weekend had elapsed, after receiving reports of someone driving at speed.

A vehicle was located a few minutes later in Newark, with a short pursuit then taking place that ended when the car collided with a garden fence in Hawton Road.

Thirty-five-year-old Hardi Mohamad was later charged with a range of alleged offences, including dangerous driving, aggravated vehicle taking, and failing to stop.

He was also charged with failing to provide a specimen for analysis, driving while disqualified, and driving without the correct insurance.

Mohamad, of Russell Road, Forest Fields, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday, where a trial date was set up and he was released on bail with strict conditions. 

Daimian Temple also attended the court on the same day (Monday), after being charged with a burglary and two shop thefts.

That’s after a car the 43-year-old was in was pulled over in London Road, Newark, by the same response team for an unrelated matter on Sunday afternoon.

The officers at that point identified Temple as being an outstanding suspect for a commercial break-in and two separate shop thefts.  

More than £3,600 worth of items were taken when a café in Brunel Drive, Newark, was burgled in the early hours of 25 August 2024.

Multiple packs of cheese were also stolen from two Newark shops in Sleaford Road and Bowbridge Road, on 12 September and 12 October respectively.    

Temple, of no fixed address, was released on conditional bail ahead of his next appearance at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on 3 April 2025.

Mohamad is next due to appear at the same court on 22 April 2025.

Sergeant James Skeats, of Nottinghamshire Police’s Newark Response R3 team, said:

“Dangerous driving and burglary can both be hugely damaging to people’s lives, so it’s only right that the police treat offences of this nature with the seriousness they deserve.

“These two incidents provided a great example of the variety of different reports we can be called to from one day to the next.

“The officers in my team did a great job responding to these situations as they presented themselves over the weekend, with the end result being two suspects charged and brought before the courts.”