A BANNED driver who staged a 90 minute roof top stand off with police has been jailed for 18 months.

Jordan Sheridan scaled scaffolding at the Breightmet Centre for Autism after being involved in a 10 minute pursuit through the streets of Bolton in a stolen car in the early hours of August 11.

Bolton Crown Court heard how alcoholic Sheridan had only been banned from driving two weeks earlier.

Michael Brady, prosecuting, told how Sheridan had turned up at his mother’s house in Cross Street, Kearsley in a taxi and whilst his family were paying the driver he took the keys to his stepfather’s Renault Modus.

The family reported the car stolen and it was spotted by police at 5.15am who followed it for eight minutes before Sheridan noticed the vehicle behind him on Blenheim Road, Breightmet and sped off.

Mr Brady said it was raining, but Sheridan still drove at 60mph in a 30 limit and up to 50mph in a 20mph zone over speed humps.

On Aldercroft Avenue another driver heading in the opposite direction had to swerve out of the way and at one point Sheridan collided with a lamppost.

The Modus came to a halt in a dead end on Arnside Grove, but Sheridan ran off and scaled scaffolding at autism centre before giving himself up an hour and a half later.

The court was also told how a drunken Sheridan had walked into a staff room at Farnworth Asda on June 24 claiming he had worked there and tried to pick up a pay slip.

After he was asked to leave he stole several bottles of alcohol worth £112 from the store’s shelves and ran off after being challenged.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, aggravated vehicle taking, driving whilst banned and with no insurance, theft and shoplifting.

Virginia Hayton, defending, stressed that Sheridan’s mother had previously allowed him to drive the car, but he accepts he should not have taken the vehicle and he struggles to stay away from alcohol.

Judge Elliot Knopf sentenced Sheridan to 18 months in prison and banned him from driving for 18 months.

“You would have known full well you should not have been anywhere near the driving wheel,” he told Sheridan.