A TEENAGE biker dragged a police officer down the road causing serious injury after being asked to stop for having a modified exhaust.

Wesley Thomson-Bruske has been jailed following the incident in Eastleigh in December last year.

The 19-year-old had been riding a motorbike with a modified exhaust on Knightswood Road in Eastleigh at around 5.45pm on December 22.

A police officer spotted the teen while dealing with a separate crash and he approached the rider.

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The officer asked him to pull over close to Raglan Close so that he could speak with him about the excessive noise of the exhaust.

But Thomson-Bruske resisted and tried to flee the scene.

While attempting to ride away, he dragged the officer down the road.

The motorcycle lost control, causing a serious injury to the officer.

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He was detained and arrested at the scene.

At Southampton Crown Court, Thomson-Bruske was charged with driving without a licence, failing to stop a vehicle when required by police, drug driving, driving without insurance, and assault causing actual bodily harm.

Thomson-Bruske, of Avon Green, Chandler’s Ford, was jailed for 10 months, disqualified from driving for 23 months and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £187 to the court to fund victim services.

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