British man Muhammad Ikhlaq told police prostitute in his car was helping him buy tomatoes A UK man told police he had withdrawn 20 pounds to buy tomatoes, not to give to the prostitute waiting in his car. A UK man caught with a prostitute in his car told cops she was just showing him where to buy tomatoes. West Midlands police discovered the woman, a known sex worker, waiting inside a car while Muhammad Ikhlaq took out cash from an ATM, the BBC reports. When questioned, Ikhlaq told cops 20 pounds ($33) was for tomatoes and that the woman was going to show him a good place to buy them. "I've heard some excuses before but in the 10 years that I have been a police officer I have never heard a kerb crawler covering up his crimes by claiming to be buying tomatoes," Walsall police's PC Stacey Paterson told the BBC. Ikhlaq was found guilty of soliciting and fined 400 pounds ($665) at Walsall Magistrates Court, and ordered to pay costs.