A man has been sentenced to 71 weeks in prison after ramming a police car in his van before speeding off along the M40.

Stuart Jones aged 48, of Himley Road, Dudley, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and assaulting police at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Tuesday 2 September.

At around 11.35pm on Saturday 14 June Warwickshire Police received a report of a van with a driver "behaving suspiciously" in Stratford.

As officers approached, Jones rammed the police vehicle before fleeing the scene. He continued to drive out of Stratford, often on the wrong side of the road, and without lights on.

By now on the M40, the van did a U-turn and drove the wrong way, where officers managed to stop it and detain Jones.

Following the court outco

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