A blind man who led police on an 85mph chase through a city centre has been jailed.

Mulazum Hussain, 21, who can only see a few feet ahead, refused to stop, sparking an 8km (five-mile) chase through Sheffield in the dead of night.

He sped over roundabouts, went through red lights and was going so fast his Vauxhall Corsa left the ground at one point and did a 360-degree spin.


When Hussain was finally stopped, he got into the passenger seat and told officers: ‘It wasn’t me driving. I’m blind.’

He admitted charges of dangerous driving and having no insurance at the city’s crown court and was jailed for nine months.