A banned driver who was arrested after leading a police helicopter on a 16-minute pursuit through Bristol told them: "I was pretty f****d by the eye in the sky". Mitchell Parker was on an electric bike when police tried to pull him over.
After failing to stop he rode off, going on the wrong side of the road, mounting pavements and riding through a park. Though police vehicles struggled to pursue the nimble machine at up to 40mph, a police helicopter hovered over his every move and he couldn't shake it off.
In due course Parker handed himself in to a police motorcyclist. The 28-year-old father-of-three, of Broadstone Walk in Hartcliffe, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and driving while disqualified after the incident in April.
