Jahidul Islam has narrowly avoided a prison sentence
A Leeds teenager ventured on a joy ride around the city centre in a "moment of madness" while ignoring red lights, speeding and driving into oncoming traffic.
£5,196.45 in cash was also discovered. The court heard inside a vehicle outside the address, lighters with phone numbers on were recovered. Mr Walters said: "In the drugs trade these are common to give out as calling cards."Islam, 19, was arrested and answered "no comment." The court heard he was handed a conditional discharge last year at York Crown Court in relation to another drugs offence - but he went on to breach this.
Mitigating, Dan Lee, told the court a pre-sentence report and three letters - including one from Islam - had been provided. He said in relation to the car searched in respect of the drugs matters that it was not Islam's and the phone found was also not his. Get all the latest and breaking crime news in Leeds by signing up to our Crime and Punishment newsletter here.
"Showing off to your friend, impressing your friend - how do you think crashing a car, if it happened, would impress them? You could have killed your friend - that's no way of impressing them is it?"
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