Hair-raising dashcam footage shows killer driver leading cops on high speed chase through city
Zahoor Hussain, 29, was caught behind the wheel of a Mercedes despite being banned from driving after killing his pal in 2012
SHOCKING footage shows a driver who was banned for killing his friend leading police on a dangerous high-speed chase through city suburbs.
Zahoor Hussain, 29, was jailed for 32 months and stripped of his licence in 2012 after a horror crash which killed 17-year-old Zoe Smith.
Police spotted him behind the wheel of a Mercedes last month and Hussain led them on a terrifying six-mile pursuit, reaching 80mph through 20mph zones.
A court heard it was only through luck nobody was killed or seriously injured in the 15-minute chase through Bristol.
Dashcam footage from one of the police cars shows Hussain swerving and hurtling past other vehicles at breakneck speed.
At one point he goes through a no entry sign and speeds the wrong way down a residential road.
He also darts across junctions and careers around sharp corners in an attempt to evade cops.
The chase comes to a dramatic close when Hussain crashes into a bus and van.
Two officers leaped from their cars and dragged the racer out as smoke poured from the engine of the Mercedes C430.
Hussain, of Bristol, admitted dangerous driving, failing to stop for police and driving while disqualified and without insurance.
He was jailed for 18 months at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday following the incident on the evening of July 22.
Recorder Andrew Maitland heard it was Hussain's fifth conviction for driving while disqualified since 2004.
He told him: "You have displayed you are a menace to the public when you are behind a steering wheel
"Anybody who has watched how you drove would be aghast.
"It is a miracle that, on the way, other persons nor vehicles were damaged.
"It was inevitable there would be a crash at the end, given the manner of your appalling dangerous driving."
Hussain was disqualified from driving for four year and nine months and told to pass an extended driving test.
He was also ordered to pay a £140 victim surcharge .
The court heard four bus passengers suffered whiplash in the crash.
Hussain made no comment to all questions when interviewed.
Alistair Haggerty, defending, said: "He is very remorseful. It was clearly stupid behaviour. He says that day he went out and 'chucked his life in the bin'."
He added the part-time bakery worker knew he shouldn't have been driving and panicked when he saw police.
Hussain was jailed for causing the death of his pal, Zoe, when he crashed his dad's Mini Cooper while speeding at 50mph in a 20mph zone in September 2010.
Her family branded his sentence "a joke".
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