A heavily pregnant drunken motorist led police on a 110mph high speed chase because she was already banned from the road, a judge was told.

Samina Shah, who was eight months pregnant, tore through 40mph speed limits from Slough to Feltham "driving like a maniac."

Prosecutor Sarita Basra told Reading Crown Court that Shah was asked to stop by officers in Slough one evening in September last year after they noticed her car was damaged.

After seeing the police's flashing blue lights Shah took off at breakneck speed in a chase that lasted 15 minutes.

Counsel said: "She drove through a residential area in an attempt to elude the officers, at speeds of up to 100mph in a 40mph limit.

"She climbed her car up onto pavements several times."

She continued on to the M4 motorway where she drove at 110mph and changed lanes without warning.

Finally she crashed into a roundabout in Bedfont Road, Feltham.

When caught, pregnant Shah, from Slough, admitted that she had been disqualified from driving and that was why she had fled.

Defending Shah, Nadeem Holland, revealed that Shah had been taken into care at the age of 12 and had just split with an abusive partner at the time of the offence.

She pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and driving while disqualified, driving with excess alcohol and without insurance and failing to stop.

Judge Anthony King suspended Shah's twelve month prison sentence for dangerous driving and driving while disqualified for 18 months, saying he said he did not wish to "heap any more misfortune" on the life of the 32-year-old's other young child.

She was also given an 18 month supervision order and banned from driving for three years.