"Hero Ash Nails Runaway Driver"

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Posted 2007-10-22 12:12:52 by Jun Akiyama
News URL: http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/examiner/news/regional/tm_headline=hero-ash-nails-runaway-driver&method=full&objectid=1997

This article entitled "Hero Ash Nails Runaway Driver" (http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/examiner/news/regional/tm_headline=hero-ash-nails-runaway-driver&method=full&objectid=19976803&siteid=50060-name_page.html) showcases Ash Scholefield in Huddersfield, UK, who chased down a driver of a stolen van and restrained him.

From the article: "Ash knew just how to restraining the struggling youth – he is a black belt instructor in aikido martial arts at Huddersfield Sports Centre.

He put the teenager in a wrist lock and marched him back to the scene of the accident and restrained him until police officers arrived 15 minutes later.

Ash said: "I managed to restrain him in the safest possible way without doing him permanent injury."

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