Disgraced police officer JAILED for lying is pictured smiling after making shameless bid to keep his job

A disgraced police officer who has served time for lying to swerve a traffic offence has failed in a shameless bid to keep his job. Raja Yousaf, 28, claimed the traffic cop who stopped him suggested he was a terrorist 'based on the fact I'm a Muslim'.

But Chief Constable Stephen Watson dismissed his claim and sacked Yousaf, a PC who had been accepted onto GMP's firearms unit.

In August, Yousaf was jailed for four months after he admitted perverting the course of justice. The lying cop had claimed the registration had been stolen after his BMW had been discovered driving at speed through Oldham at around midnight on July 30, 2021.

But traffic police are said to have recognised PC Yousaf who drove out of sight despite pursuing cops using their emergency 'blues and twos' following the incident on Greenacres Road.

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GMP says its investigations proved that PC Yousaf’s mobile phone had been in Oldham on the night in question, and not Stockport as he claimed when he was interviewed.

Today (Friday) Yousaf was sacked by Chief Constable Watson following an 'accelerated misconduct hearing' at GMP's headquarters in Newton Heath.

The hearing was told Yousaf had been stopped earlier that night, and he claimed the traffic cop who stopped him suggested to him he was a terrorist. Yousaf told the hearing the encounter left him fearful about the way he would be when he was stopped for a second time.

Mr Watson dismissed his allegations and sacked the 'disgraced' officer, finding that in fact the would-be gun cop had been 'insolent and evasive' to the traffic officer who he called 'a tool'. He had also refused to provide his identity documents and had