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Suspect shot with taser after 120mph pursuit
8:40pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
A SUSPECT was shot with a taser gun after a 120mph police motorway pursuit.
Moments earlier police had tried to stop the Honda Civic Type R after laying a stinger spike strip across the M6.
However the car carried on for further five miles before coming to a stop.
The pursuit followed the alleged theft of a car from Blackburn.
A 28-year-old man from St. James’ Road, Blackburn, was selling the Honda Civic over the internet.
It is alleged said he took a prospective customer out for a test drive and an potential issue was raised over the exhaust.
However, after the car’s owner got out, the Civic headed off at speed, it is claimed.
The car was reported stolen and later it is alleged that the vehicle was filled up with petrol at the Forton Services on the M6, but that the driver fled without paying.
Police said they were involved in a pursuit of the car, which reached speeds of up to 120mph on the M6 up to Cumbria.
They said the Honda hit the stinger spike strip at 103mph.
As they tried to make an arrested, police shot a suspect with a Tasar gun.
An 18-year-old man has been charged in connection with the incident last Thursday night.
When he appeared before Blackburn magistrates, Imran Shermohammed, of Glasgow, was sent to Preston Crown Court charged with unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving and providing false details with intent to pervert the course of justice.
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St James’s Road, Blackburn, where the car owner lives
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