Sophia Dillon, 20, led police on a high-speed chase on the M60 motorway in Greater Manchester while her two-year-old son was in the back of her car. Despite dangerous driving, Dillon avoided jail time after the court couldn't definitively prove the child was present during the pursuit.
A waitress escaped jail after her two-year-old son was found in the back of her BMW following a 121mph police pursuit on the M60 motorway in Greater Manchester. A deputy district judge who sentenced Sophia Dillon after viewing dashcam footage of her 'appalling' driving said she 'nearly killed herself'. Dillon, 20, who wasn't insured to drive the car and only had a provisional licence, swerved in and out of other vehicles and nearly lost control behind an HGV, a court heard.
The boy was found sat in a booster seat in the back of the car with no seatbelt on after the BMW was eventually stopped, the prosecution said. The judge, however, accepted it could not be proved the child was in the car at the time of the pursuit. During the seven minute-long chase, Dillon weaved in and out of traffic, undertook on the hard shoulder and drove over a rumble strip on the motorway. Warrington magistrates' court heard she managed to lose the officer in pursuit after coming off a stretch of the eastbound M60 near Manchester and jumping red lights. The car was located by another officer 10 minutes later and stopped. When quizzed, Dillon said she had been in a 'panic' after picking up family passports in Liverpool before driving to Manchester Airport ahead of a family holiday. She insisted her son was not in the car at the time she was being tailed by police and said she had stopped to collect him during the period officers had lost sight of her. Dillon admitted dangerous driving and having no insurance or driving licence and was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months. Sentencing, Deputy District Judge John Rowan said: 'I suspect that the child was in the car and if I was sure of that, I would be locking her up. However, I can't be sure. Only she knows if the child was in the car. If the child was in the car, I hope that she has sleepless nights about it
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