Daily Star

HIGH SPEED DASH

Car cam shows dealer clocking 100mph

- ■ by ED CHATTERTON news@dailystar.co.uk

A DRUG dealer called Jack Speed who led police on a 100mph chase has been jailed.

Dramatic dash-cam footage shows the 21-year-old hitting breakneck speeds through residentia­l streets after failing to stop for officers on January 2.

Speed, who was also banned from the roads, can be seen tearing around in his BMW 1 series as police close in.

At one point during the crazy

Vintage-obsessed Katie Morrison dresses like gran Kathleen, below, did in the 1940s.

And in true wartime fashion she spends as little as possible on her vintage wardrobe. Katie, 35, from Nuneaton, Warks, said: “I’ve so much admiration for my nana Kathleen.

“She was an ambulance driver during the war but also owned a shop full of hats and bags.

“I love how people managed to do so much with so little.

“You can buy a cheap straw hat, add a ribbon and make it look like it’s from the 1940s.” pursuit, during which he was clocked doing 80mph in a 30mph zone, he tries to reverse into a police car before swerving around a bus.

Speed also raced through a red light at 70mph and went the wrong way around a roundabout before he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a wall and parked car.

He was arrested before officers at taserpoint found a backpack full of cannabis and a 12in wooden baton in the car at Erdington, Birmingham.

Speed, of Sutton Coldfield, West Mids, admitted dangerous driving, disqualifi­ed driving, possession of drugs with intent to supply, possession of an offensive weapon and driving without insurance.

He was jailed for four years and 10 months at Birmingham Crown Court on June 26.

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TASER-POINT: Jack is arrested
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SENTENCED: Speed

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