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A Birmingham teacher said to have played a key role in stopping youngsters joining Isis has been jailed.

Nahiem Ajmal worked at Park View School – at the centre of the Trojan Horse scandal involving allegations of a takeover by hardline Islamists.

He was jailed for six months for his role in an unrelated plot which saw a shamed West Midlands Police officer try to access restricted information about the location of a third man’s wife.

Warwick Crown Court heard Ajmal hailed as a “voice of moderate Islam” who had even been invited to the White House in recognition of his anti-terror work.

Ranjit Lallie, defending, also said in mitigation that Ajmal had successfully de-radicalised at least a handful of young men who had proposed to carry out bombings in the UK.

“He was instrumental in setting down a law preventing Muslims becoming members of Isis,” Mr Lallie said.

“It is a law that many, many Muslims adhere to.”

The court heard Ajmal was the middle man in a plot to locate the wife of another man, Sajad Khan.

Stephen Linehan QC, prosecuting, said the pair “corrupted” Pc Osman Iqbal – now serving a jail term for his part in a £1 million-plus sex and drugs racket.

Iqbal was persuaded to “abuse his position” to access a confidential log in a bid to track the woman down.

The court heard Khan’s wife had earlier fled when he was in Morocco but police established she were safe and well and did not want her whereabouts disclosed to her family.

Khan contacted his close friend Ajmal, who asked Iqbal to help find her.

In one text Ajmal asked Iqbal: “Can you pull any slippery strings.

“It’s very urgent and personal.”

Iqbal later replied: “Had look at record and I’m afraid it has been restricted to inspectors only, so I don’t have access.”

Khan, 35, of Lodge Road, Hockley, and religious studies teacher Ajmal, also 35, of Bucklands End Road, Hodge Hill, had both pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting, counselling and procuring Iqbal to commit misconduct.

Khan was also jailed for six months.

Iqbal, 36, was already serving seven years and two months for conspiring to manage brothels in London’s West End and supplying cocaine to clients.

He was jailed for an extra 20 months after admitting misconduct in a public office.

Mr Linehan said messages on Iqbal’s phone after he was arrested over the brothels in September 2012 revealed the misconduct offences.

Mr Lineham said: “He was corrupted by the other two who set out, and they did not have much difficulty, to persuade him to abuse his position as a police officer to find the whereabouts of Khan’s wife.”

He said Iqbal also accessed the West Midlands Police secure intelligence system, known as Flints, to view a file relating to his cousin Talib Hussain – who was also jailed for the brothel and cocaine offences.

Kate O’Mara, defending Khan, said: “His naivety at the gravity of the request means Your Honour can mark the offence with the imposition of a suspended sentence.”

But Judge Sylvia de Bertodano said: “It is hard to imagine anything more serious than attempting to get hold of the details of a woman who was in hiding to pass them on to the person she was in hiding from.

“The purpose of cases like this is to send out a message, firstly to prevent officers thinking they can behave like this and secondly so the public can continue to trust police officers.”