A man who once infamously taunted police while on the run is back behind bars after leading cops on a motorbike chase and then harassing his ex-partner and threatening to burn her house down.
After ditching his bike and hiding in bushes, career criminal Matthew Maynard was tracked down thanks to a police drone. Once released on bail having admitted dangerous driving he then began harassing his former girlfriend and issuing a series of lurid threats against her and her family. The offending took place shortly after he had been released from prison following an earlier episode of dangerous driving where he again led police on a high-speed pursuit - on that occasion at the wheel of a stolen BT van.
Maynard hit the headlines in 2009 when he was being sought by police in Swansea in connection with a burglary - he objected to the mugshot which was issued during the manhunt, so sent a new one to the South Wales Evening Post showing him posing next to a cop van. But his vanity was to be his undoing, and after the picture appeared on the front page of the paper he was arrested when a member of the public saw him in a barber's shop.
