A SERIAL offender drove at terrified police officers before jumping on his car roof and threatening to produce a gun, a court heard.

Raymond Delves rammed patrol cars stationed in Torcross Close, Southampton, before leaping out of his vehicle and shouting, “get back, I’ve got a gun”.

Police ordered the 37-year-old to surrender himself after tracking him down in relation to a separate fraud offence he was wanted for.

But he pretended not to hear and put his car in reverse shunting a police car before revving forward on to a garden.

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Delves, of Weston Grove Road, tried to escape after the drama but was captured and arrested.

Police at the scene later described the incident as the “most frightened” they had ever been.

Southampton Crown Court was told how Delves had been trying to sell items stolen from the former partner of his girlfriend Laraine McMullan.

Delves, who has previous convictions for robbery and assaulting a police officer, admitted charges of dangerous driving, using threatening and abusive behaviour earlier this year.

He was handed a 12-month custodial sentence and told by recorder Malcolm Gibney that he would serve at least six months behind bars. His co-defendant McMullan, 41, was given a community order of 100 hours.