Teh One Who Knocks
02-28-2013, 12:00 PM
By Richard Smith - The Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oRqzWZws85M
A banned driver tried to outspeed a police helicopter and four patrol cars on a 50cc MOPED.
Dad James Phillips, 22, made his doomed escape bid on his Piaggio while a helicopter crewman gave police officers a running commentary on the low speed chase.
At one point the chopper crewman said: “Speed is 15 - one-five - miles an hour.”
Phillips was filmed from the helicopter during the entire one mile police pursuit through a housing estate in Bristol.
A male passer-by tried to punch Phillips off his bike but narrowly missed him.
The roofer hit a top speed of almost 30mph before he finally pulled over to the kerb and gave himself up.
Bristol crown court heard how Phillips panicked when he saw police and rode off on his £200 machine.
Speaking outside his red-brick terraced home yesterday, after avoiding jail, Phillips said: “It was a stupid mistake, boss, that’s all.
“I don’t know what I was thinking really. I would not do it again - I didn’t even think I would get away from them.”
His lawyer Farah Rashid said: “He behaved in a really stupid way.
“He was going to get caught. There was no excessive speed. It was only a matter of time that police would arrest him and he stopped voluntarily after some distance.
“It was, perhaps, more stupid than dangerous under the circumstances.”
Phillips, from Southmead, Bristol, was banned from the road for another three years after he admitted driving while banned, without insurance and dangerous driving.
He was also given a nine months suspended jail term, ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work and attend a thinking skills programme.
Passing sentence, judge Geoffrey Mercer QC told him: “You’ve clearly made a nuisance of yourself quite a lot in the past.
“You don’t need me to tell you it deserves a prison sentence. I have decided to suspend that sentence.
“It looks to me as though you are growing up. That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?
“You are 22, you have responsibilities, a partner, a child, you have done courses and you work.”
After the case one police officer said: “You normally expect a bit of drama when the helicopter’s up and you hear there’s a chase on.
“But this was more like a guided tour. On that moped he was going nowhere fast.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oRqzWZws85M
A banned driver tried to outspeed a police helicopter and four patrol cars on a 50cc MOPED.
Dad James Phillips, 22, made his doomed escape bid on his Piaggio while a helicopter crewman gave police officers a running commentary on the low speed chase.
At one point the chopper crewman said: “Speed is 15 - one-five - miles an hour.”
Phillips was filmed from the helicopter during the entire one mile police pursuit through a housing estate in Bristol.
A male passer-by tried to punch Phillips off his bike but narrowly missed him.
The roofer hit a top speed of almost 30mph before he finally pulled over to the kerb and gave himself up.
Bristol crown court heard how Phillips panicked when he saw police and rode off on his £200 machine.
Speaking outside his red-brick terraced home yesterday, after avoiding jail, Phillips said: “It was a stupid mistake, boss, that’s all.
“I don’t know what I was thinking really. I would not do it again - I didn’t even think I would get away from them.”
His lawyer Farah Rashid said: “He behaved in a really stupid way.
“He was going to get caught. There was no excessive speed. It was only a matter of time that police would arrest him and he stopped voluntarily after some distance.
“It was, perhaps, more stupid than dangerous under the circumstances.”
Phillips, from Southmead, Bristol, was banned from the road for another three years after he admitted driving while banned, without insurance and dangerous driving.
He was also given a nine months suspended jail term, ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work and attend a thinking skills programme.
Passing sentence, judge Geoffrey Mercer QC told him: “You’ve clearly made a nuisance of yourself quite a lot in the past.
“You don’t need me to tell you it deserves a prison sentence. I have decided to suspend that sentence.
“It looks to me as though you are growing up. That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?
“You are 22, you have responsibilities, a partner, a child, you have done courses and you work.”
After the case one police officer said: “You normally expect a bit of drama when the helicopter’s up and you hear there’s a chase on.
“But this was more like a guided tour. On that moped he was going nowhere fast.”