A BMW driver who fled across Bradford at ridiculously high speeds has been jailed for 18 months after injuring three police officers and deliberately damaging their cars in the twenty-minute pursuit.

Footage of the lengthy chase involving several patrol vehicles with lights flashing and sirens blaring was shown at Bradford Crown Court on Friday.

Kayle McGhie twice deliberately braked hard causing the police BMWs to smash into him and each other leaving three officers with whiplash, back and knee injuries.

McGhie pleaded guilty to dangerous driving but denied three offences of criminal damage to a West Yorkshire Police BMW and perverting the course of justice by lying to the police by saying his car had been stolen when it was pursued across Bradford at 1.30am on April 3 last year.

The court was told that the plea to dangerous driving was on a full facts basis.

The Crown had accepted his denials to the remaining four counts, which meant the maximum sentence available to the court was two years imprisonment.

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Prosecutor Ella Embleton said that several police vehicles were involved in the lengthy pursuit that included Swain House Road, Kings Road, Wrose Road and Leeds Road.

Footage shown in court showed the BMW going the wrong way around a central reservation as it sped through the night with two passengers on board.

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

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

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

He then made no comment when questioned.

He had 15 previous convictions for 28 offences, including driving with excess alcohol, no insurance, driving while disqualified, aggravated vehicle taking with an accident causing injury, and a further driving with excess alcohol.

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

His barrister, Andrew Dallas, said in mitigation that he knew he was going to prison and had brought a bag along with him.

He had rehabilitated himself after his earlier offending and this was a single serious lapse. He had a full driving licence and he was insured at the time.

He had gone to pick up two people from a party and he 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 while he was in prison.

References, including from his employee, spoke positively of him as hard working and not living a criminal lifestyle.

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

Judge Andrew Hatton said McGhie was pursued by the police at 1.30am on April 3 last year for twenty minutes.

He had sped down a good many major roads, residential roads, back streets and side streets in Bradford at ridiculously high speeds.

He had gone the wrong side of bollards and the wrong way up streets and caused a col-lision 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 then abandoned the car and lied saying it had been stolen.

He went on to make no comment when interviewed.

It was at times deliberately aggressive driving that left three police officers injured and their vehicles damaged.

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.

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