A new dad with a ‘shocking’ record for car crime and led police on a dangerous chase will be sentenced in September.

Lewis Felton, 31, was twice caught behind the wheel in May and June – despite being banned from driving.

Judge Maria Lamb told Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday: “The defendant has a really shocking driving record.

“I think I’ve counted something like 12 offences of driving whilst disqualified and two previous offences of dangerous driving and here we are with a variety of offences including dangerous driving again and I think two driving whilst disqualified.”

Richard Davies, defending, asked the judge to consider adjourning the case for Felton to speak to the probation service and obtain a pre-sentence report.

The barrister accepted his client’s record was a ‘dreadful’ one. But he said the defendant had previously complied with the probation service following his release from a previous prison sentence in 2019 and he now had a three-month old baby.

Judge Lamb noted that the latest set of crimes, committed on May 8 and June 22, would have taken place after his child’s birth.

However, she adjourned the case for a pre-sentence report, remanding Felton, of Deer Walk, Oxford, in custody until September 16.

Felton, who appeared in court via video link from Bullingdon prison, pleaded guilty at the Magistrates’ Court to dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified, without insurance, failing to stop, failing to report an accident and without the correct licence plate.

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