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Media captionVideo shows the moment a PC is knocked down by a car, before it was driven over himA car thief who ran over a police officer with a patrol car after being Tasered has been jailed for 12 years.
Mubashar Hussain hijacked a police BMW and drove over PC Gareth Phillips, before speeding away at up to 97 mph.
The officer sustained potentially life-changing injuries when he was targeted by “habitual dangerous driver” Hussain in Birmingham in August.
Hussain, 29, previously admitted causing grievous bodily harm, and was sentenced at the city’s crown court.
PC Phillips, of West Midlands Police, attended reports of a stolen car in Moseley on 10 August.
Hussain was found in the driver’s seat and his co-defendant Ahsan Ghafoor in the passenger seat.
The court heard Hussain removed barbs left in his skin by a Taser deployed by officers who surrounded the stolen Range Rover Evoque.
Andrew Smith QC, prosecuting, said Hussain “remained resistant even when a Taser device was used against him”.
“In fact he tried to remove the barbs of the fired Taser from his skin,” Mr Smith said.
Police body-cam footage played in court showed Ghafoor being handcuffed and pinned to the ground near the 4×4.
Hussain was filmed struggling with officers and was described as looking “in a rage and fired up”, Mr Smith said.
He reached the unmarked police car behind the Range Rover, despite being Tasered again.
The force vehicle had been left with its engine running and it began to reverse after banned driver Hussain got behind the wheel.
“Mr Hussain then drove forward over the pelvic region of PC Phillips before accelerating up Moorcroft Road,”
“The effect was immediately distressing. This was an extremely shocking and frightening incident for all of the police officers involved.”
Hussain, of no fixed address, fled the scene and was arrested in the Sparkbrook area after abandoning the police car.
The court heard he entered a dessert shop where he disguised himself in an apron and then punched a chasing officer.
Last month, Hussain admitted causing grievous bodily harm, two counts of vehicle theft, dangerous driving, two counts of driving while disqualified, two counts of assault, assaulting an emergency worker, aggravated vehicle-taking, and two charges of having no insurance .
He had initially been charged with attempted murder.
Ghafoor, 24, of Fulham Road, Sparkhill, was jailed for 28 months after admitting two counts of car theft and three driving offences including dangerous driving, having no insurance and driving other than in accordance with a license.
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