This baby-faced road menace is finally behind bars after crashing while banned from the roads

A baby-faced road menace is finally behind bars - after blowing a final chance to keep his freedom by crashing a car while banned from the roads.

Craig Shaw was warned last year that his feet wouldn’t touch the ground if he offended again when a judge sentenced him for sparking a police chase.

But within six months he got behind the wheel to deliver a takeaway for a friend, lost control on a roundabout and smashed into a lamppost.

Now the 19-year-old, who fled the scene but was caught by DNA on the car’s airbag, has been locked up at Newcastle Crown Court.

It was on October 16 last year that police were called to the site of the crash on the B1505 at High Pit, Cramlington, Northumberland.

A lamppost had been hit with such force it was bent over at an angle.