A DRUNKEN tearaway downed vodka and 13 pints before stealing a car and leading police on a high-speed chase through the streets of Hampshire.

Gary Tudor was banned from driving and even sitting in the front seat of any car because of his prolific offending, when he raced through residential roads at up to 80mph in a bid to escape officers.

He was only stopped when police used a stinger to puncture the tyres on his stolen Ford Sierra.

Tudor, 23, who has 106 previous convictions including dozens for driving offences, was yesterday jailed for 15 months and again banned from getting behind the wheel.

Tudor, who has a seven-year-old son, had been on an all-day drinking bender with friends in Southampton before he decided to steal the car from St Martin’s Close, Shirley.

The Sierra’s owner heard his vehicle being broken into, at about 9pm on December 27, and reported it to police.

Two hours later, after Tudor had driven the car along the M27, officers on patrol in Portsmouth spotted it speeding into the city and gave chase.

Tudor stopped the vehicle, but sped off when one of the officers got out of the police vehicle.

They chased him throughout the city and surrounding area. Tudor was said to be racing through residential streets at up to 80mph.

After his arrest, he was breathalysed and found to be over the drink-drive limit.

He told police he had drunk around 13 pints of Stella and some vodka before getting behind the wheel.

But he insisted he couldn’t remember stealing the car, or being chased by police.

After admitting taking a vehicle without consent, drink-driving, driving whilst disqualified and without insurance, and breaching an anti-social behaviour order, he was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court.

Deputy Circuit Judge Christopher Leigh QC told Tudor he was appalled by his habitual offending, but was not imprisoning him for as long as he could have, in the hope he would turn his life around.

“It is a very long time since I have seen such a bad record for offences of driving, taking without consent, driving disqualified, with no insurance and the like,” he said.

Judge Leigh jailed Tudor, of London Road, Cowplain, for three months each for stealing the Sierra and driving whilst disqualified, and a further nine months for the Asbo breach, all to run consecutively.

Tudor was also banned from driving for 12 months.