STORY
Former Bracknell Forest mayor Naheed Ejaz has been jailed for three years after being convicted of perverting the course of justice, in a case involving her son Diwan Khan.
Ejaz, 61, had served as mayor of Bracknell Forest from May 2023 to May 2024. Winchester Crown Court heard that when police attended Khan’s home in September 2024, Ejaz delayed officers at the front door and then spoke to her son in Urdu after they entered the property. Body-worn camera footage later showed the pair discussing the hiding of something, and police said the conversation was translated as part of the investigation.
The now disgraced Ejaz served as Mayor of Bracknell Forest from May 2023 to May 2024, after being elected as a Labour councillor for Great Hollands in May 2023. Her appointment was presented at the time as a historic moment for the council, with reports describing her as Bracknell Forest’s first Asian woman mayor and Ejaz herself saying she was the borough’s first Pakistani Muslim mayor.