A MAN who drove while high on drugs and disqualified from driving has been jailed for 12 months.

Abed Ali, 24,of Mentmore Close, Booker, was facing sentence on driving and drugs charges at Aylesbury Crown Court on Tuesday.

Ali, who was also banned from driving for two years and until he takes an extended driving test, was told by Judge Roger Connor: "Your sheer lack of regard for the safety of other people is unbelievable."

The court heard that Ali had pleaded guilty to driving a Toyota car in Desborough Road, High Wycombe, on June 13 last year while disqualified, failing to surrender to custody on August 6, driving a Vauxhall Nova dangerously in West Wycombe Road and Mill End Road, driving while disqualified, failing to stop, possession of heroin on September 17.

He also admitted driving a Honda Civic dangerously along Middlebrook Road, Southfield Road and Plomer Hill, all High Wycombe, while disqualified on November 9.

Jane Alt, prosecuting, said Ali had driven at 58mph in a 30mph area on September 17, before being arrested in possession of heroin.

She added that Ali failed to answer his bail, and went on to drive at twice the 30mph limit on November 9 before he crashed a friend's Honda Civic after he had earlier refused to stop for police.

He was later caught and the court heard he had been banned from driving for three years in 1999.

Graham Smith, mitigating, said that the current offences happened when Ali was under the influence of crack cocaine.

Ali was jailed for four months for dangerous driving on September 17, six months consecutive for the repeat offence and one month consecutive for possession of heroin.