A SERIAL offender who dodged oncoming traffic whilst driving the wrong way along the Avenue of Remembrance in a police chase has been jailed.

Kieran Hibble was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court today after admitting charges of dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified, driving on false plates, failing to stop and driving without insurance.

The court heard Hibble’s Ford Focus was spotted by police officers in Cymbeline Way, Colchester, and they suspected the car was using fake plates.

Officers tried to get the vehicle to stop to investigate further, however Hibble, of Rawlings Crescent, Colchester, sped from the scene.

Shanda McAteer, prosecuting, said: “The vehicle failed to stop and there ensued a chase which saw Mr Kibble contravene a No Right turn sign.

“He went the wrong way down the Avenue of Remembrance which caused other drivers to take evasive action.

“He then went to undertake a motorcyclist but clipped the driver of the vehicle’s leg.”

Hibble lost control of his vehicle and was eventually brought to a halt and arrested.

The 21-year-old, who has 26 convictions for 63 different offences, was failing to meet the terms of a community order put in place in April for drugs related offences.

Peter Clark, mitigating, said his client had gone off the rails.

He said: “He was in a relationship he thought was going to last but now he is out of touch with his daughter because of the actions of others which he contested.

He added: “His mother tells me it was the upset in relation to the daughter which sent him off the rails and it may explain the lack of engagement with the facilities at his disposal.”

Judge David Turner sentenced Hibble to eight months in jail for dangerous driving, three months for driving whilst disqualified and one month for failing to stop. The sentences will run consecutively.

Hibble was also disqualified from driving for two and-a-half years.

Judge Turner said it was a “miracle” no-one had been hurt.

He added: “You have been committing offences and or breaching court orders steadily for the last eight years and you have been in and out of court for someone your age on an appalling number of occasions.

“One might have thought, with the matters hanging over you from April you might have made a conceivable effort to make a success of the order.

“Had you done so I might have been able to take a sympathetic course of action.”