A former solider suffering with a "PTSD episode" led police on a high-speed drug-fuelled pursuit which included him driving along the hard shoulder of the M4 at speeds in excess of 100mph and racing through a motorway service station. The chase came to an end when Jason Maddocks drove into an airfield and went off-road before abandoning the car - and the vulnerable missing woman who had been his passenger - and taking to his heels.

A judge told 36-year-old veteran Maddocks that he had shown an "absolute disregard" for the safety of others.

He also said it was only by luck that nobody had been seriously injured or killed by the defendant's driving. Don’t miss a court report by signing up to our crime newsletter here

Swansea Crown Court heard that at lunchtime on October 1 last ye

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