A mum who once led police on a 120mph high speed chase while high on crack cocaine and heroin has avoided jail for the third time.
Paige Thomason, 28, was high on crack cocaine and heroin, whilst also being intoxicated, when she sped through the town of Ormskirk at 100mph.
According to Liverpool Echo, this followed a 120mph pursuit along the M58 after officers noticed the disqualified and uninsured driver on the road.
In March 2020, Thomason was given an eight month jail term, alongside a two-year suspension and three-year road ban.
The judge was going to allow Thomason a chance but in February 2021, she was dragged back into the dock when she was found to be in possession of crack cocaine.
For that offence she was handed a one year community order with a one year DRR requirement and told to five Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days.
However, on June 23 Thomason was back before the courts again for failing to show up for DRR appointments.
And for the third time the mum was spared jail.
Police first arrested Thomason when they began to pursue the disqualified and uninsured driver along the motorway and past Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, where she reached 100mph while behind the wheel of a Renault Megane at around 2.30am on July 12 2020.
Simon Duncan, prosecuting in March, said police activated their sirens and tried to stop Thomason on Southport Road, but from 2.31am "she really did put her foot down" and hit 50mph in the 30mph zone.
She went past the university at 100mph - in a 40mph zone - before abandoning her car and running towards the Cricketers pub.
Mr Duncan said: "The defendant was found hiding underneath her coat in the rear garden of an address on St Helens Road."
She admitted dangerous driving; driving while disqualified, without a licence, and without insurance and failing to provide a sample.
Her defence barrister told the judge "substance abuse" underpinned her actions adding she was a "relatively vulnerable young person" with serious mental health issues and "in the early hours of that morning she was really lost".
The judge said he was going to give her a chance and she was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years along with a three-year road ban.
Alongside her suspended sentence she was also ordered to carry out 25-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirements and a six-month Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR).
Thomason was also told to comply with a three-month home curfew from 7pm to 7am daily.
But in February this year Thomason was hauled back into court when she was found in possession of crack cocaine.
For that offence she was handed a one year community order with a one year DRR requirement and told to five Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days, but she has been brought back to court once again for failing to show up for DRR appointments.
The court heard she had failed to turn up for two appointments, with the mum-of-three claiming she missed one of those following a call from her solicitor regarding her son.
Callum Ross, defending at Liverpool Crown Court, said other than the two breaches in March and May there had been "consistent" compliance with the order.
He said she was "willing" and "motivated" adding the order would "help her move forward and hopefully deal with her addiction".
Thomason, of Chirkdale Street, Walton, admitted breaching the order on two occasions.
Judge Anil Murray, sentencing, said: "If you breach this order again I'm going to have to lock you up."
Thomason was ordered to complete five extra Rehabilitation Activity Requirements in addition to her current sentence.
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