A PROVISIONAL license holder has received extra jail time after his 90 mile-per-hour police chase was recorded on his passenger's phone.

Ben Peter Randles, previously of St Mark’s Avenue in Connah's Quay, received an extended sentence of eight years and ten months in December for a knife attack in a pub.

The 27-year-old appeared at Mold Crown Court via video link from HMP Berwyn on Thursday after previously admitting dangerous driving.

Ember-Jade Wong, prosecuting, told the court that shortly before midnight on August 23 last year, North Wales Police was made aware of a suspected drink-driver in Chester City Centre.

Randles was spotted by CCTV operators walking in a "heavily intoxicated" manner, before getting into a black Renault Clio.

The vehicle was seen heading along Sealand Road towards North Wales before narrowly avoiding a collision with a cyclist.

Police sighted the vehicle on the A548 and failed to stop when instructed to do so by officers.

Randles continued to drive onto the A494 near Queensferry, at this point driving at 90 miles per hour - the speed limit being 50.

When officers started to pursue him, he went through a red light without slowing down at the Queensferry Interchange and lost control of the car, which spun 180 degrees on the roundabout.

Randles then set off in the direction of Shotton, passing through three more sets of red lights without slowing and drove "at excessive speeds through built up areas."

He swerved onto the opposite side of the road on a right hand bend with very little view and was described by police as driving in a "thoroughly dangerous manner."

The chase ended when Randles and his passenger decamped and ran away - but he was detained a short distance away.

Randles made no comment when interviewed by police, but officers found Snapchat footage recorded by his passenger during the pursuit.

In it Randles can be heard making plans to evade capture by going across a field.

Matthew Curtis, defending, invited the court to pass a concurrent sentence.

He said: "The defendant has been in custody for four months, knowing his earliest date for eligible release is in 2024.

"He has no prior offending of a similar nature."

Mr Curtis said Randles had been using his time in custody productively, undertaking workbooks in his cell and hoping to take part in courses.

Judge Timothy Petts told Randles: "You were driving in a highly dangerous manner, at high speed and for some distance.

"You were trying to get away from the police and had clearly been drinking.

"You are still only a provisional license holder, having never passed a full test."

Judge Petts handed Randles a six months sentence to be served in addition to his ongoing jail term.

He also disqualified him from driving for 68 months and ordered him to take an extended retest before obtaining a license in future.