Bangor,North Wales - A55 drunk-driver high on cocaine tasered by police after 130mph chase

Sean Craig Williams was jailed for nine months for the cocaine-fuelled police chase

• 22 APR 2016
• BY GLYN BELLIS

Sean Williams went wrong way round a roundabout and jumped out of moving vehicle before it crashed into hedge

A DRINK-driver high on cocaine led police on a 130mph chase on the A55 and had to be tasered by police trying to arrest him.

Sean Williams, 27, had crashed through roadwork cones into a closed lane on the dual carriageway went the wrong way around a roundabout, and he and a passenger leapt from the Mazda as it was still moving before the car crashed into a hedge, Caernarfon crown court heard.

The prosecution said a Taser stun-gun was used to detain him at Bangor.

Judge Gaynor Lloyd told Williams, a plasterer, of Min y Coed, Bangor , who admitted dangerous driving, possessing a drug, failing to stop and resisting police, as well as drink and drug driving

”It’s an utter fluke no-one was injured by your actions and more damage wasn’t caused.”

A three-year ban with an extended test was ordered.

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The judge described it as “appalling” driving by a man who called himself a binge-drinker. “This driving is a worrying escalation in your offending behaviour,” she said to Williams.

Judge Lloyd said he had four drink-driving offences on his record.

“By your own admission, on January 11 you were coming to the end of a three-day drink and drugs binge which you say was your first for some time. You were in no fit condition to drive,” she said.

He had driven erratically and at more than 100mph in a 40mph limit at roadworks as he headed from Llandudno towards Bangor.

Prosecutor Jade Tufail said officers in an unmarked police car first saw him late at night on the A470 at Llandudno and pursued the Mazda 3. After being held, Williams said he had panicked when he noticed the police.

Gareth Roberts, defending, said Williams knew his driving was “dreadful” and was ashamed. In 2011 he had decided to stop drinking, then built a successful business, and was due to marry in June.

But Williams “went off the rails” because of an issue in his personal life. He was now reconciled with his girlfriend and they hoped to move to Cheshire.

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