A DRUGS importer who led police on an astonishing 130mph chase after going on the run was last night behind bars for what a judge called "recklessly life-threatening driving".

Daniel Boatwright - said to have "had every pam but Pam Ayres" when he was caught with his huge stash of illegal substances - was told it was a miracle he did not kill anyone.

The 29-year-old, from North Yorkshire, had traces of 11 drugs in his body when the 35-mile chase ended on the A1 near Dishforth in the early hours of October 28 last year.

He was unsteady on his feet, had slurred speech and police said he looked drowsy, prosecutor Paul Abrahams told Judge Peter Bowers at Teesside Crown Court yesterday.

When he was arrested months earlier, he had diazepam, nitrazepam, bromazepam and clonazepam as well as codeine, methylamphetamine, morphine, alprazolam and phentormine.

The court heard that Boatwright imported the prescription drugs from Pakistan because he had an addiction to some of them - but he also sold batches to make money.

After pleading guilty to drug charges and awaiting sentence, Boatwright went on the run from his home in Hambleton Walk, Catterick Garrison - and hid with his family in Leeds.

But after four days, a police officer thought there was something suspicious about the Mercedes C180 he was driving - because it was registered to a woman in North Yorkshire.

Boatwright was asked to pull over, but raced off through a housing estate, onto the city's Ring Road and sped on the wrong side of a notorious blackspot stretch.

In his statement, the officer who pursued the danger driver said: "I watched in horror as he showed no sense of consideration for himself, his passenger or others."

Boatwright was on the wrong side of the road as he raced up a blind crest before reaching the motorway where officers from North Yorkshire took over the chase.

Tom Mitchell, mitigating, said he panicked because he was afraid to go to prison and fled the area with his partner and 21-month-old son and three-year-old daughter.

"Ultimately, Daniel Boatwright looks back on that night with a degree of horror and mortification . . . he has just brought more misery on himself and on his family.

"He most certainly does appreciate the risks he took. He said he was disgusted with himself. It was not his intention to drive dangerously. It just turned out that way."

Judge Bowers told him: "You drove dangerously recklessly when highly under the influence of a cocktail of drugs. It was appalling driving over more than 30 miles.

"It was a miracle you didn't have an accident and cause injury or death. You should never have been anywhere near a car in the condition you were in that night."

Boatwright was jailed for five-and-a-half years after he admitted drugs possession and import evasion offences, dangerous driving, breaching bail and driving while unfit through drugs.