A CONVICTED drug dealer who caused a head-on car crash while speeding away from the police had his prison term extended to almost ten years yesterday.

Shazad Ahmed, 36, who was already serving a long jail sentence for trafficking class A drugs, appeared before Bradford Crown Court on a video link from Nottingham Prison.

He had earlier pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and driving without insurance and a licence.

Ahmed, of Old Cottage Close, Hipperholme, Brighouse, crashed into an oncoming vehicle at 7.30pm on August 29 last year while fleeing the police in a high-powered VW Golf. A 22-year-old man was injured in the collision on Bramley Lane, Hipperholme, and his Citroen car written off.

Ahmed was on bail to the crown court and magistrates court at the time and had 20 previous convictions for 45 offences.

He at first denied being the driver, saying he was in the back seat of the vehicle at the time.

Ahmed was jailed for eight years and eight months at Nottingham Crown Court on January 11 for drug dealing and breach of bail.

He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, to run consecutively, for the driving offences and banned from driving for 68 months.