Tyrone Jugessur appeared at Cardiff Crown Court charged with three separate sets of driving and theft offences.
Jugessur argued with his ex-partner on December 13 after she received a phone call from another man. The defendant snatched her phone from her and smashed it on the ground, before then also breaking her car keys by throwing them on the floor.
Weeks later, on New Year’s Eve, a witness saw the defendant’s ex-partner driving a Mercedes in Cardiff whilst shouting for someone to call the police.
Jugessur followed in a Seat Leon shouting ‘I’m going to f***ing ram you now’. He then drove into the Mercedes “five or six times” before driving off.
The defendant was also accused of stealing a Hyundai in Cardiff on July 30.
A man had left his car running in Rhiwbina whilst delivering newspapers. When he turned around he saw his car had been taken and was being driven away in convoy with a Ford Transit.
The car was recovered and Jugessur was found nearby. Checks revealed he had been driving the stolen vehicle in Sully whilst disqualified and without insurance.
Officers also recovered a number of key fobs, a key fob creator, and some blank key fobs, as well as tools belonging to a carpenter.
Jugessur was further charged with handling stolen goods on that date in relation to a Ford Transit van which had been stolen from a BBC sound engineer working in Dinas Powys on May 12. The van contained around £10,000-worth of equipment when it was stolen.
A carpenter working in Cardiff on July 29 reported his Ford Transit van was stolen when he went to speak to a colleague “for around a minute”.
The victim’s 17-week-old puppy was in the van at the time, but fortunately the dog was recovered after the defendant let it out of the van.
Jugessur, of Lynmouth Crescent in Llanrumney, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, handling stolen goods, criminal damage, and two offences each of theft of a motor vehicle, driving without insurance and driving whilst disqualified.
The 34-year-old had 25 previous convictions for 42 offences.
“He says he needs to change,” said Martha Smith-Higgins, in mitigation.
“He wants to go back to being a full-time father to his children who are also suffering due to his stupidity.”
Ms Smith-Higgins said the dangerous driving took place “in the heat of the moment” when the defendant was “angry”.
She added Jugessur’s thefts were “opportunistic” and “not sophisticated”.
Recorder Greg Bull KC jailed Jugessur for 40 months and disqualified him from driving for three years. The defendant’s ex-partner was granted a five-year restraining order.
