UK FORMER BBC DJ TURNS OUT TO BE A STOLEN COMPUTER HANDLER http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5111538.stm?ls

A former BBC DJ has been convicted of nine charges of receiving stolen computer equipment.

Anjum Rafiq, 33, of Solihull, was found to have computers worth thousands of pounds at his Warwick Road home.

At Warwick Crown Court he pleaded not guilty to charges of receiving stolen property but was convicted on Friday.

Rafiq, a DJ and former BBC Asian Network lunchtime presenter, was granted bail at the hearing while pre-sentence reports are prepared.

Simon Phillips, prosecuting, told the court: "There is no dispute that all of the items are stolen goods.

"The only issue is whether when Rafiq took them into his possession he knew or believed they were stolen."

The court heard that Rafiq ran a business buying and selling computers in addition to his job as a radio DJ.

"When his legitimate activities strayed into illegal activities, he turned a blind eye to them and was going to sell them on," said Mr Phillips.

Diary entries

The computers and other equipment had been stolen in burglaries over three years at companies in the Birmingham area, a school, an optician and also Northamptonshire Football Association.

Two weeks after a police raided his home the DJ went to a police station and was arrested.

He told officers that he did not know the computers were stolen and had bought them in good faith, but refused to answer questions put to him by detectives.

In diaries kept by Rafiq one entry was made for a Dell laptop on the same day the identical model was stolen from an office.

Other entries referred to him paying for passwords to be removed, the court was told.

Adjourning the case for pre-sentence reports the judge told Rafiq he could give no promises over the sentence.