A DRIVER who injured three police officers and deliberately damaged their cars during a 20-minute pursuit has been jailed for 18 months.

Kayle McGhie – formerly of Wilsden – twice deliberately braked hard, causing the police vehicles to smash into him and each other.

Three officers were left with whiplash, back and knee injuries.

McGhie pleaded guilty to dangerous driving following the incident, in which he was pursued across Bradford at 1.30am on April 3 last year.

Prosecutor Ella Embleton told Bradford Crown Court that several police vehicles were involved in the lengthy pursuit.

In footage shown in court, McGhie's BMW could be seen going the wrong way around a central reservation with two passengers on board.

As it headed towards Shipley it went up a narrow footway and was abandoned.

McGhie then reported it had been stolen after he had attended a party in Shipley.

But he was identified by officers after he was caught on a speed camera during the pursuit.

He had 15 previous convictions for 28 offences, including drink-driving, having no insurance, driving whilst disqualified and aggravated vehicle taking.

McGhie, 34, formerly of Main Street, Wilsden, was living in a caravan before he was sentenced.

His barrister, Andrew Dallas, said in mitigation that McGhie had rehabilitated himself after his earlier offending and this was a single serious lapse.

He had gone to pick up two people from a party and was driving them home. He gave in to pressure to keep going when the police told him to stop.

It was in the early hours of the morning when there were mercifully very few members of the public around, Mr Dallas said.

McGhie was running a car repair business that would almost certainly fold whilst he was in prison.

References spoke positively of him.

He had been on bail and had not committed any further offences in the 14 months since.

Judge Andrew Hatton said McGhie had sped down roads at "ridiculously" high speeds.

He had gone the wrong side of bollards and the wrong way up streets and caused a collision with three police cars by braking hard.

“It was a sustained and determined attempt to get the police off your tail,” Judge Hatton said.

McGhie was ordered to pay each of the officers £1,000 in compensation.

He was banned from driving for two years and nine months and until he passes an extended retest.