Speeding paedophile rammed off road by police as he tries to avoid first day in court

Police rammed a speeding paedophile off the road as he tried to avoid justice for possessing hundreds of indecent videos of children.

Luke Jarrett was spotted driving erratically between lorries in his green Jeep Cherokee along the A4 in Cambridgeshire.

He swerved into oncoming traffic, breaking the speed limit and refusing to stop for police who engaged in a dramatic chase to stop him.

The 26-year-old was driving after failing to appear at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court to face charges relating to illicit images of children that morning.

Instead he reached speeds of 64 mph in a 50-mph limit and recklessly overtook vehicles with police in hot pursuit.

Dashcam footage shows the moment he tries to stop police overtaking him with officers making ‘tactical contact’ to send him careering off the road and flip his 4×4 over.

He is seen clambering out of the smashed window of the overturned vehicle only to be placed in handcuffs.

Jarrett was on bail at the time after being charged with illicit images of children offences after he uploaded an indecent image of a child to the internet on 5 October 2023.

When officers arrested him in 2024, they seized his electronic devices and found 703 indecent images of children and 771 videos, 638 extreme pornographic images and 288 indecent photographs of a child that had been distributed.

Jarrett, of Lords Lane, Wisbech, was jailed for three years and four months, having pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and one count of distributing an indecent image of a child.

He also admitted three counts of making an indecent image of a child, two further counts of distributing an indecent photograph of a child and possessing an extreme pornographic image.

Jarrett was handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order, ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register and banned from driving for five years.

DC Simon Law, who led the investigation, said: ‘Creating indecent images and then sharing them may not be a physical offence, but it still harms the child victims.

‘Jarrett clearly did not want to face justice for these crimes, which may lie behind his reckless and dangerous driving that endangered innocent members of the public on the day of his first court appearance.’