A former taxi driver who left two police officers injured by ramming their cars has been jailed.
Kasam Ali was behind the wheel of a VW Golf in Blaydon, Gateshead, when police tried to pull him over at the entrance to a Shell garage on the evening of March 5 last year.
Officers positioned cars at the front and back of his vehicle and he responded by driving back and forward, ramming them to escape at speed through the forecourt.