A lovelorn youngster took police on a seven-minute high-speed chase after snorting up to £300 worth of cocaine.

Ellis Farrow, 21, had broken up with his lover before the drink and drug-fuelled binge which ended with the partial demolition of a pub.

Farrow was driving a courtesy car which smashed into a Peugeot, knocking it through a wall at the Hare and Hounds Pub in Margate Road, Ramsgate in November last year.

As Farrow, of Foster Avenue, Broadstairs, was pulled from his wrecked car and wrestled to the ground, he told police officers: “I’m sorry.”

But Canterbury Crown Court heard that tests later showed that as well as alcohol, Farrow had 16 times the allowed level of cocaine in his body.

Judge Rupert Lowe said: “That’s not surprising if, as he claimed, he had taken between £200 to £300 worth of cocaine.”

Jailing him for 14 months, he added: “You were responsible for the most appalling piece of dangerous driving in a courtesy car after going to a pub and drinking to excess, before, taking cocaine.”

Prosecutor James Ross said Farrow had driving at twice the 30mph limit in Northwood Road, Stirling Way and St John’s Avenue being followed by a police car.

“He also went through numerous red lights, narrowing missing parked cars and driving on the wrong side of the road," he said.

“Farrow’s car then went through another red light and smashed into a silver Peugeot at a 90-degree angle hitting the driver’s door.

“The Peugeot then went through a wall and into the pub.”

The car driver was later taken to hospital with a suspected broken collarbone but the court wasn’t told what the unnamed driver’s injuries were.

After being stopped Farrow admitted “being off his head on drugs” after a bust up with a lover who had told him she didn’t want to keep his child.

But the judge told Farrow, who admitted dangerous driving, carrying a knife in public and possessing cannabis: “If I can say this – you are not in a fit state to be a father.”

Farrow said he remember taking the drugs in the pub and then started driving around “like a fool” but could recall nothing after that.

Guy Wyatt, defending, said Farrow had been dealing with an issue “which was particularly hard for a young man”.

He said: “He was clearly in a fragile state. He was stupid to go to the pub, stupid to take drugs to excess and stupid to get into his car. But he now wants to join the army.”

Farrow was banned also from driving for two years and seven months.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Farrow was 80 times over the limit. He was in fact 16 times over the limit. We apologise for the error.