A driver 'giggled' after being caught following a high speed chase after he'd rammed a police car. Billy Johnson was driving a Fiat 500 stolen in a house burglary weeks earlier when he came to the attention of police in Heywood, Rochdale.
Police pulled him over but dad-of-six Johnson then drove off at speed. During a six minute chase through residential streets, Johnson, 30, reached 60mph in 30mph zones, sped over speed bumps and went through a red light.
Johnson eventually drove into a dead end on Cleves Court. He rammed into a police car and even drove onto a basketball court as he tried to get away, in the early hours of July 31, also reversing into a white van. Manchester Crown Court heard he and two other people in the car fled but Johnson was caught soon after.
