Cocaine-addled driver smashed through police road block before colliding with parked car

Officers had coned off Lower Town Street, near the junction with McLaren Fields in Bramley, on the afternoon of August 9 last year following a crash.

But body-worn camera footage played at Leeds Crown Court this week showed Sam Tavakoli ignoring the cones and driving through in his BMW. Moments later he turned around and drove back, colliding with a cone before trying to squeeze between two waiting vehicles, hitting them both.

He then accelerated away and smashed into the parked vehicle on Ashton Road, forcing the nose of his car up onto the boot of the stationary car.

The officer is then seen running up to the BMW and removing the keys from from the ignition. Tavakoli, who had no top on, appeared to be intoxicated, prosecutor Jennifer Gatland told the court.