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11
Jun 2021
Drug driver who fled police through Harrogate district at 130mph jailed
A drug driver has been jailed after speeding through villages in the Harrogate district at more than 130 miles per hour while trying to evade police.
William Geoffrey Mann, 22, was found to have used cocaine and was several times over the limit when arrested in September last year.
He reached speeds of up to 137 miles per hour while trying to evade officers on rural roads.
Mann failed to stop in Kirk Deighton near Wetherby before speeding through Hunsingore, Cattal, Whixley, Aldborough, Boroughbridge and Bishop Monkton.
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North Yorkshire Police pursued Mann through the villages around Wetherby and Boroughbridge, where he reached 90 miles per hour in a Mercedes.
Officers closed in on him in Burton Leonard, where Mann crashed into an unmarked police car and was arrested.
Mann, a delivery worker from Wetherby, was taken into custody and charged with drug driving, dangerous driving and failing to stop.
He pleaded guilty and was jailed for eight months at York Crown Court today. He was also banned from driving for a year and will have to take an extended retest.
Sergeant Julian Pearson, of the force’s Roads Policing Group, captured the pursuit on his police in-car video system and led the investigation against Mann.
He said:
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