A motorist armed with a knuckle-duster and cocaine fled from police and assaulted an officer.

Stuart Prince, of Gosforth Lane in South Oxhey, was driving a Ford van in Grove Farm Park in Northwood when he failed to stop for officers.

On the same day in November 2020 the 31-year-old also assaulted a constable and failed to provide a specimen for analysis.

He was caught with a quantity of cocaine, a knuckle-duster and was driving without a valid licence or insurance.

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Prince initially denied all the charges before changing his plea to guilty on April 12.

He was sentenced at St Albans Magistrates’ Court where he was ordered to pay £620 prosecution costs and a £95 victim services surcharge.

A community order was also made requiring the 31-year-old to have treatment for drug dependency for six months and complete 150 hours’ unpaid work within the next year.

His driving record was endorsed and the cocaine and weapon was forfeited and destroyed.

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