Freedom Eubank, Chris Eubank's boxer nephew, was jailed and banned from driving for three and a half years after taking police on a 80mph chase through Brighton
Chris Eubank’s boxer nephew was jailed for 15 months after failing to turn up for court 'because he had diarrhoea'.
Freedom Eubank drove a Vauxhall Vectra at 80mph through a 20mph Brighton residential street and red lights despite having no license and car insurance.
The Judge at Hove Crown Court said he had driven with an 'utterly selfish attitude' and sentenced him to time in prison and banned from driving for three and a half years.
Freedom, of St Helens Road, Brighton, missed the previous hearing on Monday after his mother telephoned the barrister to say he had been up all night vomiting and had diarrhoea.
When officers signalled for him to pullover in the early hours of December 1 last year he pretended to stop before speeding into the city.
He had denied being the driver of the car after jumping out and running off, but was found guilty of dangerous driving by magistrates.
The 28-year-old, a cousin of champion boxer Chris Eubank Junior, appeared at Hove Crown Court for sentence today.
The judge said he had driven 'idiotically', and had shown an 'utterly selfish attitude' about driving while uninsured and without a licence.
Richard Cherrill, prosecuting, said the 'speedy' chase began in the early hours of December 1 last year at Bloomsbury Place in Brighton.
He is a cousin of boxer Chris Eubank Jr, who has held the IBO super-middleweight title since February 2019
He said: 'Police approached the vehicle which had pretended to stop, before it was driven away at speed.
'He travelled in Bear Road, where the speed limit is 20mph, at 80mph, and worryingly drove the wrong way down a one-way road, which officers regarded as creating a high risk of a collision or injury to others.
'When the defendant brought the vehicle to a halt he then decamped from the driver’s side and was seen running away by the officers, who arrested him not far away.”
Mr Cherrill said Eubank had claimed to officers he had been a passenger and was unable to open a 'jammed' door so went out of the driver’s side.
He said the boxer was previously sent
