A drunk man who was detained after swearing at officers before driving dangerously through the streets of Doncaster has been sentenced.<br /><br />Response officers were conducting proactive vehicle stops in Doncaster city centre around 5am on 29 March when they approached a white Ford Transit van being driven by Jake Horne.<br /><br />Following a spate of van thefts in the area, officers approached the vehicle to check its documents. However, when they went up to Horne he told them to "f*** off".<br /><br />Horne then led officers on a dangerous pursuit in which he went the wrong way down one-way streets, drove through a red light, drove on the wrong side of the road and broke the speed limit.<br /><br />A careful pursuit by officers saw them keep Horne in their sights and when he entered a cul-de-sac in Balby, he had nowhere to go and was subsequently arrested.<br /><br />Horne later admitted to officers at the scene that he had been "drinking ale" and he failed a roadside breath test after blowing 98, with the legal limit being 35.<br /><br />Further checks by officer revealed that Horne had no insurance and no licence to drive the vehicle he was behind the wheel of.
