A man drove down the M6 the wrong way TWICE in a bid to shake off cops. David Houghton later jumped into the Manchester Ship Canal to try and escape.
But officers were waiting on the other side of the water to arrest him. Now he has been jailed and banned from driving.
Three cross-county pursuits began when police spotted a white Volkswagen Transporter on the M6 southbound near to junction 21, the Woolston Interchange, in Warrington, at about 1.20am on April 6. Intelligence suggested that the driver of the van, Houghton, did not have a licence so a decision was taken to stop the vehicle.
