A DRUGS courier was captured by police who surrounded his car, smashed the window and used a stun-gun on him as he reversed into parked vehicles.
Kai Antill, 22, who tried to escape police even as their vehicles blocked him in, has been jailed for 20 months.
The dramatic scene, captured in footage recorded from one of the police cars, showed four officers swooping on Antill's white Volkswagen Golf to stop him from escaping after he refused to stop in Abingdon Street, Derby.
One officer pulled open the driver's door which slammed into the bonnet of a parked car as Antill reversed.
Another officer smashed the passenger window with a baton. Antill was eventually subdued after a stun-gun was used on him.
In his car, police found 10 deals of heroin and 10 of crack cocaine. They had stopped his car because they had received information that the vehicle was potentially being used to supply drugs.
Antill, of Goodsmoor Road, Littleover, appeared at Derby Crown Court and admitted dangerous driving and possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
Simon Clarke, for Antill, said: "It's quite frankly an unpleasant piece of driving and your honour quite rightly observed the risk to the officers by the car. It's an escape attempt, he's not trying to injure."
The court heard that Antill trained in the Household Cavalry Guards as an 18-year-old until he was nearly killed in a road traffic accident in 2010.
Mr Clarke said: "A car struck his motorbike from behind and he suffered eight fractures, including his spine, wrist, thumb and heel and rehabilitation took some time."
The court was told he will never be able to return to the Army because of the injuries he suffered. Mr Clarke added that Antill's mother told him that her son's character changed after the accident – he became withdrawn and depressed.
Antill received a large insurance payout and bought a house with the money. He also used some to finance a class A drugs habit he had developed following the crash.
Mr Clarke said since Antill's arrest in August he had been held in custody, which was his first experience of prison.
He said: "He's a vulnerable young man and has been assaulted three times in prison. He now has metal plating in his jaw."
In a letter to the judge, Antill apologised to the court and his family and said: "I'm not intending to continue the lifestyle I've been living. I intend to turn my life around."
Judge Ebrahim Mooncey jailed Antill and told him: "We see on CCTV you reverse down the street and in doing so knock into parked vehicles.
"It's a built-up area, with houses and parked cars on either side and you reverse, to some extent, at speed, but not massively so as bumps on the road slow you down."
Antill also admitted failing to stop and driving without insurance.
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