Drug-fuelled banned driver led police on 107mph chase
MAN JAILED AFTER POLICE CHASE DURING WHICH HE WAS HIGH ON CANNABIS
A DRUG-fuelled Derby driver careered through streets at up to 107mph in the middle of the day as terr rified motorists swerved out o of the way to avoid a crash. A Ahmed Mehboob, aged 24, has been jailed for a year by Derby Crown Court, and Judge Shaun Smith QC said: “It was clearl clearly a dreadful piece of driving.”
A DRUG-fuelled young Derby driver careered through the streets of Spondon, Borrowash and Risley, reaching a speed of 107mph in the middle of the day as terrified motorists swerved out of the way to avoid a crash.
Dash-cam footage age p played ayed at Derby Crown Court showed a pursuing uing police car lose sight ht of Ahmed d Mehboob even though it was doing 107mph.
The fleeing motorist, who was already disqualified and high on cannabis, s, then crashed his car and fled on foot over gardens.
But after a short chase he was discovered sitting at a bus stop with the keys to the Citroen C3 in his pocket.
Jailing him for a year, Judge Shaun Smith QC said: “It was clearly a dreadful piece of driving, beginning with you undertaking a vehicle on the pavement. You reached 90mph in a 30mph between Spondon and Borrowash and went through Borrowash at 80mph.
“You went at more than 100 mph (between Borrowash and Risley). This was in the middle of the day when the streets were busy. “You carried out a number of seriously dange dangerous overtaking manoeuvr manoeuvres and some of the veh vehicles had to stop and pull on to the pav pavement themse selves in the hope you would not hit them.
“The police officer was doing more than 100mph an and he was not eve even gaining on you. “Th “The question I have to ask m myself is if I can suspend th this sentence but I would be failing in my public duty if this sentence was not immediate custody.”
Samuel Lowne, prosecuting, said the offence happened between Spondon and Risley beginning at around 11.30am on January 20. Mehboob was spotted by a marked police vehicle in Arnhem Terrace which followed him on to Craddock Avenue, Langley Road, and Borrowfield Road. The 24-year-old defendant, of Normanton, fled as soon as he saw the officer following him.
Mr Lownes played CCTV footage of the terrifying chase which saw the defendant undertake a car on the pavement at the junction of Borrowfield Road and Derby Road before Mehboob accelerated quickly away.
He careered through Borrowash at 80mph as cars swerved or pulled over to avoid a collision. Between Borrowash and Risley the camera lost sight of his car with the on-board speed camera registering a speed of 107mph.
Mr Lowne said: “The defendant enters Risley at 80mph and pulls into Second Avenue where it comes to a stop when he crashed into a garden.
“Members of the public point the police car in the direction of the collision and the defendant flees on foot jumping over fences and into gardens, discarding clothing.
“He is found sat at a bus stop 100 yards away from the crash site and has the keys to the vehicle in his pocket.”
Mehboob, of Lower Dale Road, was tested and was found to be more than twice the legal limit for cannabis. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving while over the legal limit for cannabis, driving while disqualified, without insurance and possession of a class B drug. He also pleaded guilty to drug-driving when he was found to be more than twice the legal limit for cannabis on the A47 near Peterborough three months earlier on October 25.
Chris Hallas, mitigating, said at the time of the chase his client had split up from his long-term girlfriend and was sleeping in a car.
He said since then he has reconciled with his family, hopes to rekindle that relationship and was working as a trainee barber.
Mr Hallas said: “It is impossible to mitigate that driving and impossible to mitigate the circumstances which resulted in this behaviour and the mindset of this young man when he drove in the way that he did.”
As well as the prison sentence, Mehboob was disqualified from driving for 18 months.
You went at more than 100mph. This was in the middle of the day when the streets were busy. Judge Shaun Smith QC