Officers had footage from their body-worn cameras translated after Zahir Hussain pleaded with his passenger to tell officers he had not been driving while he was being led away.
The 48-year-old eventually admitted a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice, but only after he denied the offence, then tried to get the case dismissed before attempting to blame his son, claiming it he who was driving. Prosecuting the case at Leeds Crown Court, Bashir Ahmed said that Hussain’s Ford Capri collided with a garden wall and parked cars on Church Street in Ossett, Wakefield, at around 10.35pm on October 2 last year.He then drove off again and almost collided with a police van head on.
They turned to follow him and found the car a short distance away with Hussain crouched beside it and his estranged wife still sat in the passenger seat.