BRADFORD’S top judge has jailed a prolific criminal after he subjected two police officers to disgusting and vile racial abuse while he was in custody.

During his detention at the city’s Trafalgar House police station, 30-year-old Daniel Hall also bit another custody officer’s thumb and then told him he had AIDS and shared needles with “smackheads”.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, heard yesterday that Hall, of Tyersal Crescent, Bradford, then subjected two other police constables to an expletive-ridden tirade of “highly offensive and vile” racial abuse.

During the verbal onslaught, he called one a terrorist and said they should go back home to their own country.

Hall was being detained at the police station in August following a catalogue of crimes committed in Bradford and Halifax, including two serious incidents of dangerous driving.

During one of those police pursuits, Hall was seen “weaving” between other motorists in a stolen Vauxhall Corsa on the A650 before he veering over a grassed area and drove straight through a wooden fence into a farmer’s field containing livestock.

Bradford Crown Court heard that the Corsa was tracked by the West Yorkshire Police helicopter.

Hall was eventually arrested after driving the vehicle across the field.

Yesterday Hall, who had 24 previous convictions for 38 offences, was jailed for a total of three-and-a-half years after he admitted charges of dangerous driving, aggravated vehicle taking, going equipped for theft, attempted burglary and theft.

The court heard that, in July last year, Hall had been confronted by a female householder in Halifax when he tried to get into her home while he was wearing Latex gloves.

Barrister Shufqat Khan, for Hall, said his client had been misusing alcohol and drugs at the time of the offending.

He said it was a “toxic cocktail” which had led to him being back in custody.

He said Hall had become a father for the first time four weeks ago and was now motivated to make changes in his life.

Judge Durham Hall told the defendant:”If I added up all the sentences which I could impose you would be in prison, you know, for years and years and years.”

In reference to the abuse of the officers, the judge told Hall: “This is Bradford. We are a community of both Asian, English and other people and I have a lot of very good officers and you will not talk to my officers, Mr Hall, like this.”

Hall will be banned from driving for at least three years following his release from jail.

He must also take a mandatory retest at the end of the disqualification period, the court heard.