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Getaway driver with no arms in 100mph chase

NewsHEADLINES:Getaway driver with no arms in 100mph chaseFelix Allen14.09.09A getaway driver with no arms led police on a 100mph chase through east London following a £175,000 raid on a jewellery store.John Smith, 18, whose limbs end in stumps just below his elbows, was the designated driver for the heist despite needing someone to change gears for him.He managed to keep control of the Ford Focus for 30 miles even though he was unable to hold the steering wheel as he and three friends fled from a raid on an Ernest Jones in Rainham, Essex, last December.After a high-speed pursuit along the A2, the getaway car finally crashed on the approach to the Blackwall tunnel, but Smith continued to drive the heavily damaged car until police used their own car to force it against a tunnel wall, Maidstone Crown Court heard.Smith, who cannot dress himself and lives with his mother in Holloway, north London, admitted his part in the raid and was given a 12-month youth custody sentence, suspended for two years.The judge also ordered that he be tagged and put under a six-month curfew.In mitigation, Lee Halliday-Davis said Smith had limited reading and writing skills. “Because of his naivety he did not fully accept that by sitting in the car he was actually involved in the burglary,” she said.Smith had waited in the car as the other three, wearing hooded tops, used a claw hammer to smash a window at Ernest Jones at the Hempstead Valley shopping centre just before 2am on December 17 last year.They stole £174, 445 worth of jewellery before returning to the waiting car.Tyrone Tassell, 21, from Walthamstow, east London was jailed for 32 months after admitting burglary.Sunni Sacco, 19, was sentenced to two years in a young offenders' institution, while Craig Phillips of Islington, north London, was given a two-year supervision order and a six-month electronically-tagged curfew.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: /Just started working with this guy on the canonbury estate in islington dons got no f*ckin arms but ive seen him bill spliffs, answer his fone ber normal sh*t. man spuds him wid the 1 finger. :lol: /His bigger brothers are both inside for armed robbery so the path was set.No Prison can cater for his needs so he got a bly.
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