TWO men have been jailed for their role in a carjacking robbery which took place after a minor shunt on the M5 and led to a police chase and a crash.

After the robbery the stolen VW Golf was driven at speeds estimated to be around 130mph before the driver performed laps of a roundabout and crashed.

Imram Ahmed and Mohammed Asim were jailed for the robbery at Worcester Crown Court on Tuesday.

It was accepted by judge Robert Juckes QC that neither man was involved in threatening the Golf’s driver or drove the car away from the scene and that the man who did has not yet been found.

The robbery took place at a lay-by at Sandy Lane, Lydiate Ash after the shunt at traffic lights on a slip road just off junction 4 at around midnight on June 29, 2017.

Christopher Lester, prosecuting, said the robbery victim was waiting at traffic lights in his ‘sporty’ £20,000 Golf when he felt a bump to the rear of his car after it was struck by a Seat Leon which contained both defendants. The parties agreed to exchange details in a lay-by near the northbound slip road.

After inspecting the car for damage the victim was then confronted by ‘a frizzy haired man’. A tussle followed during which Mr Armour was brought to the ground and had his car keys and car stolen.

Mr Lester said: “He thinks there may have been a weapon and that was partly the way the frizzy-haired man was coming at him and appeared to be moving his hands.”

Mr Lester described how an officer in an unmarked car estimated the stolen Golf was being driven at in excess of 100mph and ‘possibly as much as 130mph’. The car performed four laps of a roundabout in Quinton before the driver lost control and it turned over into the passenger side. Both men were arrested at the scene.

The ‘frizzy-haired man’ has never been found. In a victim personal statement Mr Armour said he was ‘very anxious followings this’ especially when driving and had suffered with nightmares.

His car, which he needed for work, was written off and there was a dispute with his insurers about how much the car was worth. As a result he was left £3,000 out of pocket. The robbery itself left him with an injury to his wrist and red marks on his face.

Zaheer Afzal appeared on behalf of both defendants, asking that both be given credit for their guilty pleas at the plea and trial preparation hearing. He told the judge Asim had mental health problems and as a result was not capable of carrying out an unpaid work requirement. He described Asim as a carer for his brother and told the court that his client recognised that Mr Armour and suffered emotionally and financially. “He’s terribly sorry for what his involvement was in the commission of that offence. He has a good side to him” said Mr Afzal.

He added: “It seems the two of them got carried away with another person’s activity.”

Mr Afzal said of Ahmed: “He deeply regrets his involvement in this matter and wishes he could turn back the clock.”

He further argued that the offence was ‘out of character’ for both of them.

Judge Robert Juckes QC said: “The driver has in fact never been found. The driver, you say, was the man who carried out the robbery.”

However, judge Juckes told them they had ‘stood by him’ as he committed the robbery and were inside it when it was crashed after being driven for some distance.

He added: “I do not accept that you were innocent and helpless passengers.”

Ahmed, 23, of Somerville Road, Small Health, Birmingham was jailed for three and a half years and Asim, aged 19, of Fallows Road, Birmingham, was jailed for three years.