Suspended sentence for police pursuit drug driver

Cameron Bradley was handed a 10-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months

A drug driver who led an eight-minute police pursuit between Harrogate and Leeds has been sentenced.

Cameron Bradley fled from North Yorkshire Police officers who tried to stop his Ford Focus on 4 March, with the 24-year-old making several "dangerous manoeuvres" along the A61.

When Bradley, from Bathgate in West Lothian, Scotland, collided with a kerb outside Leeds Grammar School, he ran from the scene but was located by a police helicopter and arrested.

At York Crown Court on Thursday, he was given a 10-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months, after admitting several driving offences.

A hospital blood test later tested positive for cocaine, with Bradley only having a provisional licence, no insurance and no MOT.

He was also disqualified from driving for 18 months and ordered to do 180 hours of unpaid work.

Traffic constable Gary Dukes, who investigated the defendant, said: "Bradley's shocking manner of driving was extremely dangerous, putting members of the public and himself at great risk of serious injury or worse.

"North Yorkshire Police will not tolerate such appalling, life-threatening driving and it is right that he has been taken off the roads."

"Anyone who thinks they can evade arrest by driving dangerously needs to think again," he added.

At a previous hearing, Bradley pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving without a licence, driving with no insurance and drug driving.

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