A harmful driver aimed his automobile at police and pedestrians whereas on medication, working as much as speeds of 90mph in a 30mph zone.
Minshull Avenue Crown Courtroom heard this week how Shane Leith, 33, of Unsworth Avenue, Radcliffe, didn’t actually have a licence or insurance coverage when he drove up Jubilee Manner, Bury, in a Mazda on the night of February 27 this yr having taken cocaine and hashish.
Approached by police due to his erratic behaviour, he then drove off, working via crimson lights, driving at police automobiles and at pedestrians and even persevering with to drive on his wheel rims in any case 4 of his tyres had been destroyed.
Recorder Geoffrey Lowe mentioned: “It was fairly frankly half an hour of the worst type of harmful driving that may presumably happen, wanting any individual being injured, maimed and even killed.”
He added: “It’s tough to picture a worse case of harmful driving than this.”
Katie Laverty, prosecuting, instructed the courtroom how Lowe had posed an especially critical risk to different street customers that night and that he had beforehand been convicted of different harmful driving offences.
When he was lastly stopped by cops they discovered a black dealt with knife beneath the motive force’s seat, which Leith denied understanding something about.
He pleaded responsible to the driving offences earlier than magistrates however denied possession of the knife earlier than being convicted in absence in courtroom.
Michael Leigh, defending, argued that his consumer deserved credit score for having pleaded responsible to the driving offences and that he had lived a troubled life for years.
He mentioned that Leith life had been “destroyed” by Class A drug habit, which had even induced him to wish to have a leg amputated some years in the past.
However Mr Leigh admitted that Leith’s crimes had been “nearly as dangerous as it might probably get close to harmful driving.”
Recorder Lowe sentenced Leith to 14 months in jail for harmful driving together with three months to run concurrently for possession of the knife.
He additionally banned him from driving for 3 years and 7 months.
