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    Dangerous drug run driver jailed after motorway incident

    A motorist who rammed two police cars on the M5 in mid-Devon as he tried to evade officers has been jailed for 23 months.

    Christopher Edmondson from Liverpool was on a drugs run to Plymouth - which police were intercepting.

    After ramming the police cars he sped off - but was stopped by a Stinger device.

    More than two thousand pounds worth of crack cocaine was found on his passenger Sean Dickinson - and packages had been thrown from the car during the chase.

    Edmondson's been jailed for 23 months for dangerous driving - and Dickinson for three years for drug offences.

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