A drugs courier caught with wraps of crack cocaine and heroin following a police chase has been jailed for 18 months.

Ian Nuttall, 50, was told by the sentencing judge that he was getting too old to be involved in that sort of criminality.

Nuttall, whose address was given as HMP Wealstun, committed the offences almost three years ago, Bradford Crown Court heard.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and two offences of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply on April 12, 2019.

Prosecutor Stephen Grattage told Bradford Crown Court on Friday that Nuttall admitted the offences on the day of his trial.

He had driven at up to 76mph and run a red light when the police ordered him to stop while he was at the wheel of a Peugeot 107 on Legrams Lane, Bradford.

When he did pull up, a search of the car revealed 2.30 grams of heroin and 2.31 grams of crack cocaine in dealer bags ready to sell on.

Nuttall, who had an old conviction for drugs trafficking, told the police he was ferrying the wraps for a dealer.

The court heard that a male passenger in the vehicle ran off and the drugs charges against him were discontinued.

Nuttall’s barrister, Jo Shepherd, said he had been in custody since July last year.

He had caught Covid while behind bars and spent time in hospital.

Recorder Anthony Hawks told him: “You are really getting too old to be getting involved in this sort of criminality.”

He said Nuttall had 27 convictions on his record for 53 offences, including some drugs matters.

Recorder Hawks conceded that it wasn’t the worst case of dangerous driving, involving a short pursuit in which Nuttall went through a red light.

He was found to have £350 of drugs in the car and admitted being a courier for a dealer.

Trafficking Class A drugs was always a serious offence and a prison sentence was inevitable, the recorder said.

Nuttall was jailed for four months for dangerous driving and 18 months for the drugs offences, the sentences to run concurrently.

He was banned from driving for two years and a deprivation order was made on the Peugeot.

Recorder Hawks told Nuttall, who was sentenced on a prison video link, that he wouldn’t have too much longer to spend in jail because of the length of time he had been remanded.