A DRUG-RUNNER grabbed a police officer by his testicles and tried to bite his hand as he tried to avoid arrest.

Stephen Hunter, 28, of no fixed abode also hurled racist abuse at a paramedic who had been called to the scene of a collision to treat him, a court heard.

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Hunter, of Blackburn was jailed for 40 months after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of class A drugs, dangerous driving, common assault and a racially aggravated public order offence.

Preston Crown Court heard Hunter’s car was being followed by police when it collided with a Toyota as he pulled across a busy junction at Roman Road without looking.

The Renault Megane he was driving was badly damaged and an ambulance was called to treat Hunter, who had a large cut to his head, the court was told.

But despite his injuries, Hunter was determined to escape the police, and it later emerged he was carrying £7,400 of crack cocaine.

Officers drew a taser to try to control Hunter, who was taken out of the ambulance after abusing an Asian paramedic.

He was shouting, spitting and flailing, and as an officer tried to restrain him, Hunter grabbed him by the crotch and squeezed.

Officers arrested Hunter and took him to Greenbank police station where he gave a prepared statement, claiming the drugs did not belong to him but that he was transporting them for the owner of the car he was driving.

Judge Newell said: “I have to take into account the protection of the public, the public who fortuitously on this occasion were merely shaken in what could have been a very serious collision.

“Instead of that being a car you went into that could have been a child on a bike or a mother with a pushchair. You are a family man. You know the consequences.

"I have to protect the public at large from crack cocaine, even with the limited involvement you put in, and I have to protect police officers, particularly police officers from the ethnic community that are doing their job to protect the public.”

He handed Hunter a 27-month jail term for being concerned in the supply of class A drugs, a further 12 months for dangerous driving and added a month each for the public order offence and the common assault, each to run concurrently.