A YOUNG thug who was twice spared jail for a brutal robbery in Swindon town centre is finally behind bars.

Mohammed Uddin, 20, was on a boozy night out with a mate when the pair set about two men who had asked them to be polite to staff in a take away.

After punching the victims Uddin and his accomplice chased them as they tried to flee, taking them to the ground and landing what was believed to be kicks.

And despite being given a 'last warning' Uddin was again spared jail when he launched another drunken attack on a nightclub worker.

But now, after he sped away from police after they spotted him driving without insurance, a judge has lost patience and jailed him for two years.

Tessa Hingston, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court that Uddin was spotted behind the wheel of a BMW in the early hours of Tuesday, July 12.

She said the car came up as uninsured as it went along the A350 on the edge of Melksham, racing away when the officer put the lights and sirens on.

The vehicle then went at between 60mph and 70mph in residential 30mph zones heading into the town.

After going the wrong way around a roundabout it came to a halt in the dead end in Campion Drive, where Uddin leapt out and made a run for it.

He was arrested nearby with the keys in his pocket but insisted he was put for a walk and had not been driving the car.

Uddin, of Sarum Avenue, Melksham, initially denied the allegation but changed his plea to guilty before magistrates on the day of trial.

Laura Paisley, defending, said he had done 180 hours of unpaid work imposed for the robbery and 120 hours for another matter where he forged an insurance document.

She said he panicked after seeing the police behind him and sped away at a time when the roads were empty.

He had bought the car a few days earlier and drove to the family restaurant in Box to open up as his brother was delayed at the accountant earlier in the evening.

She said he was very sorry and pleaded with the court to give him another chance and not jail him.

But Judge Sir John Royce told him he had run out of road and imposed a two-year jail term and banned him from the road for three years.

He said: "On February 13, 2015, at this court before His Honour Judge Blair you were extremely fortunate to receive a suspended sentence of two years for a robbery. You were given a real chance on that occasion.

"Unfortunately, as you yourself recognise and the letter you have written to Judge Blair, you have not taken advantage of that opportunity or indeed the opportunity subsequently given to you when you have appeared for various offences.

"And yet on July 12 this year when you were driving a car when you should not have been, I accept you may have decided to go and open the restaurant and drove when you should not and the police tried to stop you, and you must have been aware it was the police trying to bring your driving to an end you engaged in a sustained and a highly dangerous piece of driving.

"It was in a residential area, you were driving at 70mph in a 30mph limit. It was quiet, as has been said by the hour. But nonetheless it was a serious episode of dangerous driving.

"You at the time maintained the pretence it was not you driving and came up with some cock and bull story that it was someone else driving the vehicle and only pleaded guilty at the 11th hour."