A two-time drug driver, who started a police chase just minutes after Bradford Magistrates banned him from driving, has been given a six-month jail sentence.
Despite already being disqualified, Muhammed Hassan, 21, of All Alone Road, Idle, Bradford drove to the district’s Magistrates Court in a Volkswagen Golf last month, where he was banned from driving again for three years.
Following the hearing he got back in his car, which had been ticketed for parking on double yellow lines, and drove off, initiating a chase with police.
The court heard Hassan ignored the police’s sirens and blue lights, and drove dangerously, ignoring no entry signs as he drove over the speed limit through the Little Germany area and went the wrong way down Peckover Street.
Hassan was arrested 11 days later and on Monday admitted charges of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
Reharding the incident, Judge Jonathan Gibson said he had "clearly put people at risk by his manner of driving," and explained his sentence could have been more severe, but decided six months was "sufficient for a first prison sentence."
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