A female customer at a Fife garden centre was injured when she was sent sprawling to the floor by a disqualified driver trying to escape police.
Appearing from custody, Thomas Jamieson, 32, of Skua Drive, Dalgety Bay, admitted that on March 6 in Maygate, Dunfermline, he drove while disqualified and without insurance.
He also admitted that on April 11 at the We Wash Car Wash, Fulmar Way, Hillend, he drove while disqualified and without insurance.
At Dobbies Garden Centre, Ridge Way, Dalgety Bay, he gave a false name to police with intent to pervert the course of justice and in an attempt to avoid prosecution.
He further admitted resisting, obstructing or hindering two police officers by struggling violently, attempting to break free, flailed his arms and refusing to be handcuffed.
In the course of running away he knocked over a member of the public who fell to the floor and was injured.
Jamieson was initially spotted by an off-duty police officer who knew he was disqualified and called for uniformed officers to attend.
At 9am officers found Jamieson at Dobbies. He had driven a car to a nearby car wash and left it there to be cleaned. He told police his name was ‘James’ but the person with him called him ‘Thomas’, giving the game away.
At that, Jamieson tried to run away, pursued by the officers. “Various displays were knocked over in the shop,” depute fiscal Azrah Yousaf told Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
Jamieson then knocked over a female customer in her thirties, causing bruising to her side.
Police officers investigating an incident in Dunfermline had seen Jamieson driving a car on CCTV.
The court was told Jamieson had an “unenviable” record.
Sheriff Charles MacNair told Jamieson: “There was absolutely no excuse for you driving at all. You have a dreadful record of doing this.”
The sheriff imposed a jail sentence of 20 months and disqualified Jamieson from driving for nine years.