A drug driver who was spared jail after speeding on a grass verge at 112mph to try and avoid police is now behind bars after a judge told him his sentence was not ‘a menu’.

Adam Hutchins, of Windrush, Highworth was told to do 250 hours of unpaid work, 20 days of rehabilitation activity requirement and 21 hours at the attendance centre when convicted for dangerous driving over the drug limit and without a full licence in April.

But the 23-year-old, who also went through eight red lights while being at twice the cannabis limit, missed a string of appointments with the probation service.

And after hearing he even lied about reasons why he missed some of those meetings by claiming the buses weren’t running he was jailed for a year

In the months following he missed a string of dates at the attendance centre and to do unpaid work for the community.

When he was asked to explain his absences he said that the buses weren’t running on one occasion, but when that was checked, he was found to be lying.

In total he turned up for just eight of the 40 appointments offered to him.

Tony Bignall, defending, said “This is plainly a case where the probation service have done everything right. They have gently reminded him if he didn’t do as he was expected he would be breached. The trouble was, I suspect, they treated him a bit too gently.

Jailing him Judge Robert Pawson said “In the course of the last three to four months you have managed to complete the total of 26 hours of unpaid work.

“It appears to me that you have been treating the criminal sentencing procedures like a menu you can just pick from. It is too late Mr Hutchins.

“The fact is you have been caught out being dishonest with the probation services when you couldn’t attend, or attended late.

“I understand you have been provided bus fares by your family. You said on one occasion the bus service wasn’t running. It was checked and they found it was.”

Hutchins, of Windrush, Highworth, had been spotted by police ‘absolutely flying’ along Thamesdown Drive shortly after midnight on Saturday October 28.

When officers tried to pull him over he sped away, going through red lights by Asda Wal-Mart at 90mph, heading up on to the A419.

After going down Blunsdon Hill at 100mph and as officers tried to box him in as he pulled on to the grass part of the central reservation at 112mph to get away.