TWO men involved in a high-speed car chase after they were caught supplying heroin and crack cocaine on the streets of Bradford have been locked up for a total of five and a half years.

Jamaal Khan, 19, who was in breach of a suspended sentence order imposed just a month earlier for trafficking heroin, was sent to a young offender institution for a total of three and a half years.

Khan, of Whites Terrace, Manningham, Bradford, pleaded guilty to two offences of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply on March 5 and simple possession of cocaine on March 10.

His co-accused Shakir Mohammad, 23, of Priestman Street, Manningham, was jailed for two years.

He admitted dangerous driving on March 5 and two offences of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs on the same day.

Prosecutor Mehran Nassiri said it was 11.55am when police on patrol on Manningham Lane saw what appeared to be a drug deal taking place from a grey Skoda Octavia.

They boxed the car in on Midland Road but Mohammad reversed into one vehicle and accelerated into the second one while Khan threw a package out of the window.

A high-speed pursuit then took place at up to 70mph along Thorncliffe Road, Manningham Lane, Grosvenor Road and Lumb Lane.

On Southfield Square, the men jumped out of the moving car and fled on foot.

Mohammad was arrested after the police saw him at the wheel of a VW in the area on March 10.

Khan was arrested that day and wraps of drugs were found hidden in his room.

The package thrown from the Skoda contained 29 wraps of crack cocaine at 90 per cent purity and eight wraps of heroin at 54 per cent purity.

Both defendants made no comment in their police interviews.

Andrea Parnham, Khan’s barrister, said he had been remanded in custody to HMP Doncaster for five months.

He was drug dealing to repay a debt after being caught the first time.

Little more than 4 grams of drugs were seized from him. He had no management role in the supply chain. He was simply carrying out orders.

John Batchelor, for Mohammad, said that he was a call centre worker who had brought shame on his highly respectable family.

He was driving for Khan and he turned a blind eye to the drug dealing. He drove off in panic in a futile attempt to evade the police.

“He can’t turn back the clock. He wishes he could,” Mr Batchelor said.

Judge Jonathan Gibson said both young men had fallen in with the wrong crowd. Khan was paying off a debt to drug dealers and Mohammad was helping him by driving the car.

Khan was locked up for 30 months and 12 months of the suspended sentence was activated consecutively.

Mohammad was banned from driving for 18 months and until he takes an extended retest.