An intoxicated man who racially abused two police officers and tried to bite the doctor treating him in hospital for a broken jaw has been jailed for 12 months.

Ian Pritchard, who had 101 offences on his “shocking” criminal record, smashed his black VW Golf into a lamppost at Bradford’s Odsal Top Roundabout on February 18.

He was intoxicated at the accident scene and unsteady on his feet, prosecutor David Hewitt told Bradford Crown Court today.

Pritchard, 35, of New Works Road, Low Moor, Bradford, was bleeding from the head and legs and tried to walk off with the keys to the Golf.

He struggled when he was being arrested, trying to bite an officer on the leg, kicking out on the ground and hurling racial abuse at another officer. He then lashed out with his foot and caught an officer on the leg, Mr Hewitt said.

He was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary where he tried to attack the police and hospital staff, including attempting to bite the hand of the doctor treating his broken jaw.

Pritchard refused to provide a blood sample and a spit guard had to be put on him.

He threatened to headbutt the police, racially abused a second officer and urinated in his police cell.

He went on to plead guilty to two offences of criminal damage, two of racially aggravated harassment alarm and distress on the police officers, assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker and failing to provide a blood sample when suspected of being in charge of a vehicle.

Pritchard had 40 previous convictions for 101 offences, including 11 of criminal damage and 14 for assaulting an emergency worker or other accredited persons.

His solicitor advocate, Simon Hustler, said: “It’s a shocking record which is acknowledged by Mr Pritchard.”

And the latest offences were very unattractive, Mr Hustler conceded, but some were committed after hospital staff had injected him with Ketamine to try to calm him down.

Mr Hustler said his client was nearly 36 and appreciated it was time to change. He had moved from down south to make a new start.

He was sentenced on a video link to HMP Leeds having been held in custody for a month.

Pritchard had slowed down in his offending, no longer committing offences of theft and burglary.

He had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity and had work with a scaffolding company.

Recorder Judy Dawson said he had directed foul racist abuse at the police while trying to attack them and he had assaulted one of them.

“You’ve moved up north and committed exactly the same offences again,” she told him.

He was jailed for 12 months and banned from driving for 14 months.