A SUSPECTED drug driver has been jailed for trying to knock down two policemen who tried to stop her.

Yasmin Kelly was seen looking ‘groggy’ and ‘out of it’ as she got into her car outside a chemist’s shop in the centre of Torquay and police feared she was unfit to drive.

Two officers opened the front doors to stop her driving away but she started her car and put it into reverse, hitting them and forcing them jump away to prevent themselves being knocked over.

She then drove away and remained at large until being traced and arrested later that day.

Kelly, aged 31, of Dower Street, Torquay, admitted dangerous driving, failing to provide a drug swipe, two counts of assaulting emergency workers, and an unrelated offence of fraud.

She was jailed for a total of 14 months and banned from driving for a year after her release by Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court.

He told her: ‘The dangerous driving was most serious offence because it involved two emergency workers’ lives being put at risk as a result.’

Miss Felicity Payne, prosecuting, said Kelly was already subject to a suspended sentence in January 2021 when she swindled a Facebook user out of £600 by selling an iPhone which was never delivered.

Police were called by a worried member of the public on June 16 this year when Kelly left a pharmacy in Union Street, Torquay, looking groggy and walked towards her car nearby.

She was intercepted by police but broke away from them, got into the car, and reversed off in a way that left the two officers at risk of being knocked down by the open doors.

Miss Hollie Gilbery, defending, said Kelly suffers from PTSD and other mental health problems as a result of events in her past.

She said the fraud offence happened when she was being exploited by a drugs gang and the driving incident was the result of her panicking.