The Northern Echo reported: “A month after losing his leg in a road smash 18-year-old Dennis O’Brien evaded police in Cleveland and County Durham for three days in a stolen £35,000 BMW.” It was declared that “A one-legged car thief out-ran police in a 130 miles an hour chase”

“When cornered on a motorway slip road, he reversed at speed along an embankment and footpath. He was caught sitting in the passenger seat of the car with the engine running and denied being the driver.”

In an amusing but slightly sad indictment of parts of our legal system the hapless one-legged gent was given a temporary driving ban. It clearly didn’t take into account the fact he was already disqualified!

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