A Queensland man who narrowly avoided killing a police officer after deliberately running him over with a stolen car has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. 7NEWS
who narrowly avoided killing a police officer after deliberately running him over with a stolen car has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
“When confronted by police, he used his car as a weapon and in order to get away he drove directly at a police officer and caused him to be pushed into a glass partition, which shattered,” Kaplan said.Harris, from Scarborough on the coast north of Brisbane, had earlier stolen a vehicle during a home break-in and had been driving on the Gateway Motorway at 60km/h above the speed limit and swerving between lanes.
Harris reversed into a police van and his open passenger door struck a female police officer in the knee, causing slight injuries, before turning in the direction of the male officer and driving over a footpath to hit him with the car, causing bruising and pain. Harris’s barrister said his client had been addicted to methamphetamine since the age of 16 and had “humble plans” to stay out of trouble and to get a job when released.Fortunate the injuries weren’t worse
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