A banned driver who rammed police cars during a 125 mph motorway chase has been jailed after he blew a final chance to break a lifelong cycle of offending.

Jonathan Walsh was given a suspended sentence after he wrote off a friend’s Audi Q7 during the pursuit but reoffended four times within two months.

He was jailed for a total of two years and eight months by Judge James Patrick at Exeter Crown Court.

The sentence included the activation of 20 months of the two year suspended sentence which he received as a final chance in March

He then headed back to Cornwall at speed of more than 120 mph before police succeeded in boxing in the stolen Audi Q7 on the southbound M5 in East Devon and smashed the windows to try to get him out.

Walsh reversed into an armed response vehicle causing £8,200 damage, pushing it back far enough for him to escape the road block by hitting a second police car, ripping off a door and narrowly missing an officer.

He drove away down the hard shoulder at more than 100 mph, exited the M5 at Exeter and hit two motorists.