A MAN who led police on an 80mph chase after he was seen racing another driver has been jailed for two years.

Newsagent Abrar Khan, 21, hit a wall in his white VW Golf hire car and narrowly missed two vehicles before smashing into the kerb, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

Khan, of Great Horton Road, Bradford, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving around the Little Horton area of the city at 1am on May 25 last year.

The offence put him in breach of a two year suspended sentence for Class A drug dealing, prosecutor Clare Walsh said.

Police on patrol in Little Horton Lane ordered Khan to stop after seeing him jump a red light at speed, the court heard.

He forced other drivers to brake sharply, crossed to the wrong side of the road and ignored a Give Way sign during the prolonged chase that ended when he struck the kerb on Beckside Road, Lidget Green.

Miss Walsh said Khan, who had a passenger with him, was arrested when the car broke down.

He told the police he had been racing with a friend and had eight penalty points on his licence already.

Khan's barrister, Yunus Valli, said he was holding down two jobs.

He was running the family's newsagent's shop and working in a takeaway in the evenings.

Mr Valli said Khan's father, a hard working taxi driver, and other relatives were standing by him.

"He was young and naive and did not give a thought to what he was doing," Mr Valli said of the dangerous driving offence.

"He has now mended and changed his lifestyle."

Mr Valli said Khan was "petrified" of going to prison and urged the court to give him "one final chance."

But Judge Jonathan Rose said the court's warning in April, 2014, when Khan was spared an immediate custodial sentence for dealing Class A drugs, had "fallen on deaf ears."

"This was an utterly disgraceful piece of potentially lethal driving," Judge Rose said.

He went on: "It was a prolonged piece of driving at an appallingly high speed."

Someone could have been fatally injured or killed that night.

Judge Rose activated nine months of the suspended prison sentence and jailed Khan for 15 months for dangerous driving, the sentences to run consecutively.

He was banned from driving for two years and must take an extended retest before getting behind the wheel again.