A 20-YEAR-OLD man has been locked up for two years after crashing a stolen car at high speed only weeks after he was spared a custodial sentence for burgling gold from a Bradford house.

Usmaan Hussain threw back the chance given to him by a judge in May by writing off two vehicles and knocking down a telegraph pole in a smash in Green Lane, Thornton, Bradford, on June 16.

Hussain, of Agar Terrace, Girlington, Bradford, admitted aggravated vehicle when he appeared at Bradford Crown Court on a video link to HMP Doncaster.

He tried to rip out the inflated air bag in the stolen Renault Captur to avoid being traced through his DNA and, when that failed, he sprayed cleaning fluid on it in a further bid to escape detection.

Prosecutor Duncan Ritchie said the Crown accepted that Hussain did not steal the £9,000 car, taken from outside a woman’s home on May 18 after she dropped her key card in the street.

But he wrote it off a month later with two male passengers on board.

Hussain took a bend at up to 60mph and crashed into a Ford Transit van being driven in the opposite direction by Bradley Greenwood.

Mr Greenwood, whose mother was a front seat passenger, swerved to avoid the Renault but was unable to stop the crash which caused £2,000 of damage to his van writing it off.

The Renault then struck a telegraph pole, knocking it down and throwing wires into the road.

Mr Greenwood saw Hussain with the cleaning fluid and noticed that he and his passengers all wore gloves. He realised something untoward was going on and began filming the men.

They surrounded him, pushed him and shouted at him to stop, Mr Ritchie said. When Mrs Greenwood began to scream, the three males fled the scene.

The Captur was written off and Mr Greenwood had to replace his van, causing him great difficulty because he is a self-employed tradesman, the court was told.

Mr Greenwood traced Hussain on social media and recognised a photograph of him, the court was told.

Hussain continued to deny the offence and then made no comment to further police questions.

On May 26, he was sentenced to 21 months detention in a young offender institution, suspended for 12 months, with 200 hours of unpaid work and a rehabilitation activity requirement for burgling a house in Willow Street, Girlington, on March 20 and damaging roof tiles.

He and his two accomplices hurled roof tiles and stolen gold jewellery from the roof of the house, watched by a big crowd in the street urging them to come down.

The three were caught red-handed by the police after arriving at the house in a car with false registration plates.

The burglary victim was a friend of Hussain’s mother, who was a school governor, the court was told.

At the earlier hearing, Hussain’s barrister, Soheil Khan, said he was from a decent family and fell in with youths from his local area. He was a talented footballer who had trialled for Bradford City and Leeds United.

“Both he and his family have expressed deep shame,” Mr Khan said.

Recorder Abdul Iqbal QC spared Hussain immediate custody, urging him to take the chance given to him.

Robin Frieze, representing Hussain at his latest hearing, conceded that custody was now inevitable.

“He is a fundamentally decent young man who has gone off the rails,” he said.

Judge David Hatton QC sentenced Hussain to a total of two years in a young offender institution, made up of seven months for aggravated vehicle taking and 17 months of the suspended sentence to be served consecutively.

He was also banned from driving for two years and until he takes an extended test.