A MAN has been jailed after doing 109mph down Bradford’s Rooley Lane in an uninsured Audi S3 hired for a wedding.

Mohammed Arfan had fireworks for the celebration in the high-powered car when he sped off with the police in pursuit, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Arfan, 23, of Arnside Road, West Bowling, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving without insurance at 11pm on July 24.

Prosecutor Paul Nicholson said the police saw him drive into the path of a vehicle containing young children. It had to brake sharply to avoid a collision.

Arfan sped off at 69mph along Parkside Road on to New Cross Street where he mounted the pavement at 60mph.

He was pursued on to Parkway when he reached a speed of 77mph before zooming along Rooley Lane at 109mph.

Arfan pulled on to the Asda Superstore car park and ran off but was quickly apprehended.

He had two passengers in the Audi that had been hired for a wedding.

Mr Nicholson said Arfan had no driving licence but he had not been charged with that offence.

Mark McKone said in mitigation that Arfan had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity at the magistrates’ court.

He was 23 with no previous convictions.

Arfan was a hardworking young man who was due to be married.

He was uninsured and panicked when the police ordered him to stop.

It was a four-minute pursuit in which no one was injured.

“He will learn from coming to crown court and is unlikely to offend again,” Mr McKone said.

Arfan’s mother was poorly after suffering a stroke and he took her to many of her medical appointments.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, jailed Arfan for 13 months and banned him from driving for two years after his release from prison.

He said that Arfan was “in most respects a thoroughly decent hardworking young man.”

“When the police want to stop you and the blue lights go on, you stop,” he warned.

Arfan had sped off in a high-powered hire car that was uninsured.

“You drove like a lunatic. A car with children in it had to do an emergency stop. You went 109mph down Rooley Lane. This is a bad case,” Judge Durham Hall said.

He was sympathetic with Arfan’s “decent salt of the earth family,” but told him: “You should have thought about your family when you put so many lives at risk.”