This is the moment that a paedophile flipped his car while driving dangerously in the middle of the road towards oncoming traffic – on the same day he was due in court. 

Luke Jarrett, 26, was supposed to attend his first court appearance for having indecent images of children when he was seen by police driving recklessly. 

Jarrett was spotted by officers driving a green Jeep Cherokee on the A47 from Thorney Toll towards Wisbech in Cambridgeshire at about 9am on September 22.

Video footage shows the paedophile driving into the path of oncoming traffic, before police chased him and brought the pursuit to an end by making contact and flipping his car. 

Police said Jarrett, of Lords Lane, Wisbech, ‘clearly did not want to face justice’ for having indecent images of children, and that ‘may lie behind his reckless and dangerous driving’.

The defendant, of Lords Lane, Wisbech, was due to appear in court for the indecent image offences on the day that he was caught driving dangerously.

He has now been jailed for three years and four months.

Cambridgeshire Police said concerns were raised for Jarrett’s welfare after he was due to attend Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on September 22 this year to face charges relating to illicit images of children.

This is the moment that Jarrett’s green Jeep flipped after a police car chase – on the same day he was due in court for having indecent images of children 

Jarrett had been driving recklessly, accelerating aggressively and overtaking vehicles by moving into oncoming traffic 

Jarrett, 26 (pictured) was jailed for three years and four months at Peterborough Crown Court

Police said that after they spotted Jarrett he failed to stop. Instead he accelerated aggressively and recklessly overtook vehicles by moving into the path of oncoming traffic, reaching speeds of 64mph in a 50mph zone. 

Police made tactical contact with the Jeep to stop it.

Jarrett had been on bail after being arrested in 2024 when officers seized his electronic devices and found indecent images. 

They found 703 indecent images of children and 771 videos, 638 extreme pornographic images and 288 indecent photographs of a child that had been distributed. 

Jarrett was jailed for three years and four months at Peterborough Crown Court on November 5.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving as well as for one count of distributing an indecent image of a child, three counts of making an indecent image of a child, two further counts of distributing an indecent photograph of a child and possessing an extreme pornographic image.

Detective Constable Simon Law, who investigated, said: ‘Creating indecent images and then sharing them may not be a physical offence but it still harms the child victims.

‘Jarrett clearly did not want to face justice for these crimes, which may lie behind his reckless and dangerous driving that endangered innocent members of the public on the day of his first court appearance.’

Jarrett was also handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order, ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register, and banned from driving for five years and four months.