A man who drove dangerously during a seven-minute police chase has been spared prison to help care for his disabled mother.

Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday that Luke Troy-Davis had driven unlicensed and uninsured “because he did not want to walk to the supermarket”.

The court heard that police saw him in his Vauxhall Astra car in Reevy Road West, Buttershaw, Bradford, and followed him to Northowram.

Judge Jonathan Rose told Troy-Davis that once the police illuminated their blue lights, he drove at high speed for seven minutes.

Judge Rose said the defendant, whose girlfriend was a passenger, took corners too fast, straying on to the wrong side of the road often with vehicles coming in the other direction, and went through mini roundabouts and junctions without stopping.

He sentenced Troy-Davis to six months’ youth custody suspended for two years, a six-month curfew and 200 hours unpaid work for the community. He was disqualified from driving for 18 months.