{"id":334736,"date":"2025-12-25T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334736\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:01:10","slug":"eastleigh-man-admits-driving-was-horrific-after-police-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334736\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastleigh man admits driving was \u2018horrific\u2019 after police chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Seamus Ford, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/district\/eastleigh\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eastleigh<\/a>, was jailed for more than a year following a 45-minute pursuit which began in Salisbury and ended near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salisburyjournal.co.uk\/news\/newforest\/news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Forest<\/a> Water Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Footage from officers&#8217; body-worn video cameras showed the moments after his arrest \u2013 including when he told them he wanted to smoke.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25663871.man-led-police-pursuit-across-three-counties-jailed-15-months\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man who led police on pursuit across three counties jailed for 15 months<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ford was filmed saying: \u201cWhy am I going to stop and go to jail, bro?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI&#8217;m going to jail, bro. I&#8217;ve lost everything. My family, everything, bro. What happened to my ******** car, bro?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One of the officers replied: \u201cWell, you won&#8217;t need that in prison, will you? Do you know how many people you could have killed?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 22-year-old then said: \u201cYeah, but I didn&#8217;t though, did I?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A second police officer then said: \u201cDoesn&#8217;t matter though, does it? Do you think the court are going to go, \u2018oh you didn&#8217;t kill anyone, it&#8217;s fine\u2019? Your driving was horrific.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI know it was,\u201d Ford admitted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He later said: \u201cCome on officer, I want to smoke a cigarette.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Police found drugs in one of Ford&#8217;s socks (Image: Wiltshire Police)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The clips were posted on Facebook after Ford was sentenced on November 27.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police also shared dashcam footage of the chase, which took them to Churchill Way South, Coombe Road and Blandford Road, near Coombe Bissett.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Clips also showed them pursuing Ford&#8217;s blue Volkswagen Golf in Fordingbridge before they brought him to a stop on Ringwood Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ford, of the Quadrangle, Eastleigh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salisburyjournal.co.uk\/news\/25663494.man-led-police-pursuit-across-three-counties-jailed\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to dangerous driving, failing to provide a specimen for analysis and possession of heroin and cannabis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He was jailed for 15 months and disqualified from driving for 19 months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Ford&#8217;s custody photo (Image: Wiltshire Police)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  PC Pedliham, based in Salisbury, said: \u201cFord\u2019s driving was some of the worst I\u2019ve seen and could have resulted in numerous collisions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019d like to thank the members of the public who reported Ford\u2019s dangerous driving, allowing us to sight Ford and arrest him following a pursuit. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHis driving was extremely dangerous and showed no regard for his fellow drivers, and I\u2019m pleased he has been jailed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Ford, from Eastleigh, was jailed for more than a year following a 45-minute pursuit which began in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-334736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}