A TEENAGER who smashed into his former partner's car, assaulted a man with a baseball bat and injured a police officer, has been jailed.

Akash Verma was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of dangerous driving, criminal damage, possession of an offensive weapon, common assault and breach of a restraining order.

On April 14, Verma followed his former partner and her passenger from Northolt to Farnham Royal, driving very closely behind their car and on the wrong side of the road to pull alongside them.

At 9.45pm at a mini roundabout by the Crown Inn, in Farnham Road, Farnham Royal, Verma, of Sherwood Avenue, Hayes, deliberately drove into the victim's car and got out of his car holding a baseball bat. He began hiting the victim's car before assaulting the male passenger with the bat.

He then got back in his car and an off-duty Metropolitan Police officer who witnessed the incident approached him. She identified herself as a police officer and told him to get out of the vehicle.

She stood in the open door of the car and reached for the keys in the ignition. Verma started the engine, put the car in reverse and began to drive off.

The officer ran beside the car until he braked. She fell over and was cut and bruised. Verma drove off.

Det Con Simon Hull, said: "Akash Verma showed no regard for the victims, deliberately following them for no apparent reason and crashing into their car on purpose. To then subject them to a terrifying attack with a baseball bat outside a crowded pub and also injure a police officer in order to get away shows he also has little regard for the public or police."