A TEENAGER who narrowly missed pedestrians while twice driving dangerously in stolen cars around Lidget Green in Bradford has been locked up for ten months.

Aiden Khaliq almost hit a woman with a pram while he was being pursued by the police, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

While on bail, he again accelerated away from a patrol car, braking sharply to avoid a pedestrian.

Khaliq, 18, of Daisy Street, Great Horton, Bradford, pleaded guilty to two offences of driving dangerously while uninsured and unlicenced.

Prosecutor David Ward said that he was seen at the wheel of a stolen Honda Accord just after 3pm in Ingleby Road, Bradford, on July 4 last year.

The vehicle was on false plates and had been taken two months earlier, the court heard.

Khaliq accelerated along Northside Road, speeding past Dixons Kings Academy when parents were around to pick up their children.

He almost hit a Ford Galaxy when he went round a blind bend on the wrong side of the road.

He weaved in and out of traffic on Beckside Road and sped through a red light, narrowly missing a woman pushing a pram.

Khaliq then drove down a dead end. His passenger jumped out of the car and fled while he struggled to avoid being apprehended, trying to reverse into a police car.

Another set of false plates was found in the vehicle, along with wraps of crack cocaine.

Mr Ward said Khaliq had not been charged in relation to those items.

He was interviewed and released on bail.

On October 30, he was spotted driving a cloned Vauxhall Vectra in Beckside Road.

Khaliq accelerated off along Spencer Road, abandoning the vehicle after braking sharply to avoid a pedestrian.

He jumped over a wall into a garden in Cumberland Road where he was arrested.

Khaliq’s barrister, Jeremy Hill-Baker, said the teenager was 17 when he committed the first offence.

He had no other convictions or cautions and had served the equivalent of an eight month sentence while on remand in HMP Doncaster.

Khaliq was told to drive by others he owed money to.

Judge Jonathan Rose said: “When the blue lights of the police vehicle appear behind you, you stop.”

Khaliq had narrowly avoided hitting a woman with a baby in a pram and then almost struck another pedestrian while driving dangerously for a second time on bail.

He was sent to a young offender institution for a total of ten months and banned from driving for 35 months.