The judge said: “I wish I had significantly more powers to deal with individuals like yourself but I’m constrained by the maximum sentence available.'
Nathan Peacock put his Ford Mondeo out of action with the manoeuvre on the A1 near Pontefract after he had undertaken vehicles and drove on a verge to shake off the pursuing car.
Despite the serious nature of his latest offending, the presiding judge, Recorder Ray Singh, lamented his powers saying that Parliament had “not yet sorted it out” for recalled prisoners to allow new sentences to run consecutively.He gave Peacock a 22-month jail term, but said it would have to begin from this week so would add little to the existing sentence he is already serving.
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