A FATHER-to-be is behind bars for four months after a catalogue of offences - the latest editions to his "appalling" criminal record.

"Car obsessed" Carl Anthony Little, 22, wiped away tears as Burnley magistrates told him they had no choice and he had brought the jail term on himself.

Ex-convict Little, of Walton Street, Colne, had offended while on bail and failed to respond to other punishments, the court was told.

The defendant, who had got behind the wheel while banned and clocked up 60mph on a residential street, was told by the bench the message had to go out the courts would not tolerate young people driving while banned and uninsured.

Chairman James McGowan told him: "The consequences could have been unbelievable. You have got to face up to life ahead of you and make a fresh start. I hope you will learn from this."

Little admitted two charges of driving while disqualified, two of no insurance, driving without due care and attention and had been convicted in his absence of police assault and two counts of resisting or obstructing a police officer. He was banned for two and a half years.

Teresa Feeley, prosecuting, said Little pushed a police officer after they went to a house to arrest a woman. He was agitated, tried to get away and eventually had to be restrained on a sofa.

On another occasion, police spotted him behind the wheel and he immediately accelerated away. He refused to stop and abandoned the vehicle. Officers forced entry into a house and found the car keys but Little had fled through a window.

Dylan Bradshaw, defending, said Little, who had served a number of custodial sentences, positioned himself between his "mother in law" and police when they turned up to remind her she was under arrest.

Little was said to have little insight into the potential effects his behaviour on the road could have had on other users and pedestrians. Prison would not change the way he thought and he would not get any help.

The defendant, who was obsessed with cars, was not a violent man. He was facing adult prison for the first time and there was a world of difference between that and a Young Offenders' Institution.