A JEERING teenage
hit-and-run driver who left a young boy paralysed and almost killed
a lollipop lady has been unmasked as Sajid Hussain from
Rochdale.
He was the 17-year-old thug who knocked down five-year-old Daniel Hennessy and lollipop lady Audrey Chadwick before leaving them for dead in two separate horrific car smashes.
His face can finally be unveiled after Rochdale youth court agreed he could be named and shamed.
The magistrates' u-turn comes less than a fortnight after they refused to lift reporting restrictions due to the teenager's age - failing to consider a written call for his identity to be published.
It was argued by the press that he should not be allowed to cower behind the law protecting the identity of juvenile offenders and should be publicly disgraced.
Daniel Hennessy's mum Deborah said she is overjoyed that Hussain, who is now serving an 18-month custodial sentence for dangerous driving, will no longer be able to keep his secret.
She said after the hearing: "Children ridicule my paralysed son and adults point at him every day. I took him to the supermarket the other day and a security guard asked if he was born in a wheelchair.
"I felt so sad. It's only fair that people are allowed to point at Sajid Hussain instead and say `you did this'. He should never be allowed to forget what he did to us."
Lollipop lady Audrey Chadwick, 67, said: "People need to know who he is so that they can be wary of him."
Hussain was locked up on September 10 after the court heard he was racing a car down a busy town-centre street in February when Audrey was hit.
She broke her jaw, cheekbone, forearm and pelvis when the teenager's Fiesta smashed into another car, flipped on to its roof and slid down the road. The youth climbed out of the wrecked car and fled. When he left Audrey for dead in the street he had already been banned from the road for two years after admitting dangerous driving and other motoring offences in September.
Hussain was 16 when he left schoolboy Daniel paralysed from the waist down after a hit-and-run smash.
He was ordered to pay Daniel £2,555 compensation, but despite being hauled back to court twice after failing to pay, Daniel has received only £45 so far.
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He was the 17-year-old thug who knocked down five-year-old Daniel Hennessy and lollipop lady Audrey Chadwick before leaving them for dead in two separate horrific car smashes.
His face can finally be unveiled after Rochdale youth court agreed he could be named and shamed.
The magistrates' u-turn comes less than a fortnight after they refused to lift reporting restrictions due to the teenager's age - failing to consider a written call for his identity to be published.
It was argued by the press that he should not be allowed to cower behind the law protecting the identity of juvenile offenders and should be publicly disgraced.
Daniel Hennessy's mum Deborah said she is overjoyed that Hussain, who is now serving an 18-month custodial sentence for dangerous driving, will no longer be able to keep his secret.
She said after the hearing: "Children ridicule my paralysed son and adults point at him every day. I took him to the supermarket the other day and a security guard asked if he was born in a wheelchair.
"I felt so sad. It's only fair that people are allowed to point at Sajid Hussain instead and say `you did this'. He should never be allowed to forget what he did to us."
Lollipop lady Audrey Chadwick, 67, said: "People need to know who he is so that they can be wary of him."
Hussain was locked up on September 10 after the court heard he was racing a car down a busy town-centre street in February when Audrey was hit.
She broke her jaw, cheekbone, forearm and pelvis when the teenager's Fiesta smashed into another car, flipped on to its roof and slid down the road. The youth climbed out of the wrecked car and fled. When he left Audrey for dead in the street he had already been banned from the road for two years after admitting dangerous driving and other motoring offences in September.
Hussain was 16 when he left schoolboy Daniel paralysed from the waist down after a hit-and-run smash.
He was ordered to pay Daniel £2,555 compensation, but despite being hauled back to court twice after failing to pay, Daniel has received only £45 so far.