A JOYRIDER who took his mum's car and led police on a 10 minute chase has been given his “last chance” to stay out of prison.

Kane Hall was given a 17 month suspended prison sentence in June for dangerous driving. He’d led officers on a high-speed chase between Corsham and Chippenham in a Ford Focus stolen from his mum’s driveway.

This week, Swindon Crown Court heard 31-year-old Hall had breached his curfew seven times. Among his excuses were that he’d lost track of time and on another occasion that he had got stuck somewhere.

But his lawyer, Emma Handslip, said he was complying with other aspects of the suspended sentence order – including unpaid work, a rehabilitation programme and a requirement to complete a thinking skills course.

Hall, of no fixed address, admitted breaching the suspended sentence order.

Judge Jason Taylor QC ordered Hall complete a month-long curfew as punishment for breaching the suspended sentence order – but stopped short of sending him to prison.

“I am not impressed with your overall attitude to the order and I think a casual approach to it is perhaps an accurate description,” the judge said.

“I’m not going to tolerate you breaching the order. You could have gone to prison on the last occasion and I made that very plain to you and I would have any breaches reserved to me. That was to underline the seriousness of the position.”

He added: “It’s your last chance. If you breach this order by messing up on the curfew. If you breach this order by not attending appointments you won’t be given another chance.”