Stunned customers were drinking and playing pool when the Landrover Discovery smashed into The Lockside pub in Worksop.
Thirty-seven-year-old Jamie Kettle ran off after the collision and waded into a canal in an attempt to avoid capture but he was swiftly located by specialist dog officers and arrested.
Earlier police had received a report of a Landrover Discovery stolen from an address in Woodthorpe. Highly-trained officers spotted and then followed the vehicle as it headed along the A614 towards Ollerton.
After exiting onto the A57, Kettle hit speeds of to up to 110mph, in a 60mph limit, as police activated their blue lights.
Kettle continued to drive dangerously, including overtaking vehicles at high speed, and going through red lights, before he drove into Worksop. He was going too fast to negotiate a junction before colliding with the pub wall.
The shocking incident happened on the night of 27 March 2023.
Kettle, of Thoresby Close, Harworth, was subsequently charged with aggravated vehicle taking, dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and without insurance, criminal damage to the pub, and two counts of theft from a shop, committed in Harworth on 22 February and 2 March 2023.
He pleaded guilty to the offences and appeared at Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing on Friday 8 December 2023.
Kettle also admitted two counts of common assault of an emergency worker after he aggressively resisted two police officers who were called to a disturbance at an address in Bircotes on 6 September 2022.
He bent one of the officer’s fingers back and spat at a second officer as they tried to defuse the situation.
He also pleaded guilty to a charge of witness intimidation, relating to an address in the Retford area on 2 June 2022, when he threatened to burn their house down.
Kettle was jailed for a total of two years. He was also banned from driving for three years and three months and must take an extended retest.
