Cannabis driver tried to flee from police by speeding across packed pavements at lunch time
Ghulam Ali forced a bus and cars to take evasive action in his desperate bid for freedom
Ghulam Ali forced a bus and cars to take evasive action in his desperate bid for freedom
A DRIVER who tried to escape from police in Birmingham because he feared being caught with drugs in his car has been jailed for six months.
During a pursuit Ghulam Ali forced other vehicles to take evasive action and cut a junction by driving on the pavement.
Ali, 23, of St Benedicts Road, Small Heath, who admitted dangerous driving, was also banned from the roads for three years.
Judge Mark Wall said: “You had a small piece of cannabis and when you realised there were police officers in the area you decided to drive off.
What you did in taking that decision was to endanger the lives and safety of very many people.
This was a bad piece of dangerous driving.
It was in Small Heath, which is a densely populated area at lunch time.”
Birmingham Crown Court heard Ali, who had been in Green Lane, turned sharply causing one car to have to drive on to the pavement.
A single decker bus also had to had to break sharply and the defendant then overtook two other vehicles waiting at a junction.
Ali also drove on the wrong side of the road for about 30 metres before abandoning the Ford Focus.
He was caught after a brief chase.
Balbir Singh, defending, said Ali, who had panicked, had not driven at excessive speed and that the chase was over quite quickly.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/cannabis-driver-tried-flee-police-8691257 21/02/2015
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