A 21-year-old who led police on a car chase from Rabat to Vittoriosa late last month has been jailed for nine months and fined €3,500 after filing a guilty plea.

Dunstan Bugeja, 21 of Vittoriosa, had initially pleaded not guilty to charges that included driving dangerously, ignoring police orders and breaching bail in three cases.

He had been driving a Mercedes without registration and with foreign number plates when he was flagged down by a police officer on a motorcycle who saw him driving too fast.

Policemen from the traffic branch and the Rapid Intervention Unit followed the car as it headed south, sometimes driving fast against one-way streets, until it was cornered in Vittoriosa.

The court was told that the reason he took off was because he knew the car was not registered and he was out when he should have been at home on a curfew under his bail conditions.

Lawyers Veronique Dalli and Dean Hili appeared for Mr Bugeja.

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