Dayton Withers, 20, from Blackwood was told by a judge he was lucky he hadn’t maimed or killed other road users during the pursuit. The learner driver had tried to evade the police after he was spotted in the Tir-y-berth area of Caerphilly on Wednesday, April 30 last year. The defendant admitted dangerous driving, drug driving with a cannabis derivative in his blood, driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence and driving without insurance. His barrister Sol Hartley told Judge Paul Thomas KC: “The defendant is in pieces in the dock today your honour. “There is a good prospect of rehabilitation in the community in this case.”Judge Thomas told Withers: “Your driving last April was quite simply atrocious.