A DUDLEY thug who smashed head-on into a family s car injuring a mother and her two young sons while driving a stolen car at up to speeds of 90mph the wrong way along a dual carriageway has been jailed. Lorenzo Brown assaulted police officer Richard Harris leaving him with a broken collarbone as he tried to arrest him and tasered him after the crash. The injury has left the officer in constant pain, and may have ended his career. A nine-year-old boy in the car which he hit suffered a fractured collarbone. Warwick Crown Court heard at the time of the crash Brown was on bail after assaulting security staff at Alton Towers when they detained him for stealing a woman’s phone. He had punched one of the security officers five times to the head, biting his shoulder and then stamping on his chest and pressed his thumbs into the eyes of another.
A dangerous driver badly injured a police officer as he struggled to escape following an incident when he crashed head-on into another car on a busy Dudley roundabout. Lorenzo Brown had been due to stand trial after pleading not guilty at Warwick Crown Court to dangerous driving and inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to evade arrest. The charges follow an incident in January last year when Brown (27) of Ripley Grove, Dudley, led the police on a brief high-speed chase along Stourbridge Road. A police car video showed a BMW driven by Brown crossing the central reservation during the Sunday lunchtime pursuit on 26 January and continuing on the wrong side of the dual carriageway.