This is the shocking moment a police officer is knocked down twice by a drink driver in Greater Manchester.
Rehan Baluch was drunk on Jack Daniels and had taken cannabis when he knocked down PC Nina Foran on a street in Prestwich, police said.
Baluch, 32, and his passenger Saqib Kader, 27, had viciously attacked a fast-food delivery driver before driving away in his Nissan Micra.
Rehan Baluch was drunk on Jack Daniels and had taken cannabis when he knocked down PC Nina Foran on a street in Prestwich
A team of officers including PC Foran arrived at the scene and were speaking to the victim when the driver suddenly returned.
Ms Foran’s bodycam and nearby CCTV then captures the car as it reverses at speed as police tell the driver to exit the vehicle.
The officer is dragged along in front of the car door and thrown in between a van and a parked car, along with a member of the public behind her. He went on to be treated for cuts and bruises.
The car door is almost ripped off in the collision but as officers give chase, it is driven forward again at speed, with the door knocking PC Foran off her feet again.
Baluch, 32, and his passenger Saqib Kader, 27, had viciously attacked a fast-food delivery driver before driving away in his car, a Nissan Micra
Her screams can be heard on the bodycam footage.
Baluch then collided with several parked cars and the police van before he drove away. The Micra was later found abandoned on a residential street.
Ms Foran, a response officer based in Bury, was taken to hospital with cuts and bruises but miraculously escaped serious injury.
Police chiefs said it was ‘sheer luck’ that no one was killed or severely injured.
Baluch, of no fixed address, told a judge to ‘f*** himself’ when he was jailed on Monday for seven years.
The officer was then dragged along in front of the car door and thrown in between a van and a parked car
Baluch, 32, then collided with several parked cars and the police van before he drove away
He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified, aggravated taking of a motor vehicle without consent, assault and attempted section 18 assault at Manchester Crown Court.
The charges also relate to a previous incident in Cheetham Hill also in May, where police said Baluch drove a vehicle at an officer, causing him to jump out of the way to avoid being run over.
Saqib Kader, of Farraday Avenue, Cheetham Hill, was sat in the passenger seat during the May incident.
He was jailed for 12 months, and disqualified from driving for a year, after he pleaded guilty at the same court to aggravated vehicle taking.
Detective Constable Keith Holt said: ‘This was completely reckless behaviour by Baluch and Kader and they showed absolutely no regard for the officers or pedestrians involved.
Reham Baluch told a judge to ‘f*** himself’ when he was jailed on Monday for seven years
‘The manner in which Baluch acted was careless beyond belief, and it is only down to sheer luck that more people weren’t injured.
‘Officers put themselves on the line to protect our streets, but they should never be subjected to something like this.
‘Baluch has shown no remorse for his actions, but following today’s result he will now have to spend the next seven years in prison facing up to what he has done.’
Passing sentence on Baluch, Judge Richard Mansell QC said: ‘Your principle intention was to evade the police. You used your vehicle quite deliberately as a weapon.
He described the attack on the pizza delivery driver as ‘indiscriminate’, on ‘someone who was simply going about his business’.
‘When in a drink and drug fuelled state, you are capable of serious violence towards random members of the public,’ Judge Mansell added.
Baluch was declared a ‘dangerous’ offender, and ordered to serve an extended sentence of five years on licence, in addition to the seven year custodial sentence.