These are the final minutes of wanted teen Kelvin Bainbridge’s life before he was killed in a police chase.

The distressing moment dad-to-be Bainbridge, 19, was killed following a six-minute pursuit was captured on an in-car camera.

He was disqualified from driving and wanted in connection with burglary offences at the time, on October 18, 2019.

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Bainbridge was spotted by an off-duty officer at about 2.20pm going south at the Nevilles Cross junction on the A167 in a silver Nissan Primera. Intelligence about Bainbridge, who was one of the Spennymoor area’s most wanted men, and the car had been circulated the day before.

The officer alerted police control and followed Bainbridge to the Black Horse Inn pub in Tudhoe in his own vehicle.

CCTV from the pub shows Bainbridge pulling into the car park. He had four passengers in the vehicle including his mum Suzanne and partner who had just had a 20-week baby scan to discover they were having a baby boy.

Before arriving at the pub PC Jackson, who went to pursue Bainbridge, is heard radioing control to ask whether he should set up a stinger, but decides he does not have time.

CCTV then shows the moment Jackson’s marked cop car arrives at the pub as Kelvin is preparing to drive away.  PC Jackson attempts to block the car park’s exit with his BMW but Bainbridge reverses and pulls off at speed initiating a pursuit.

Dashcam footage shows Bainbridge leading the officer through the Spennymoor area on a six-minute chase while the officer feeds back live risk assessments to the Durham Constabulary control room.

He regularly describes the pursuit as of low or medium risk due to speed.

At one point Bainbridge crashes into another car and again fails to stop.

He then slows down as he passes a school at home time.

The final distressing moments before the crash are considered to distressing to show as they capture the moment Bainbridge jumps from his moving car and stumbles before the bumper of the police car.

He died of a blunt head injury; a pathologist ruled.

Officers at the scene, paramedics and air ambulance crews tried to save him, but he was pronounced dead at 3.01pm that afternoon.

The inquest heard PC Jackson would not have had time to stop once he saw Kelvin emerge from the car.

The full clip was shown to jurors on the first day of an inquest into Bainbridge’s death, on Monday, September 18 at Crook Coroners Court.


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Coroner Crispin Oliver agreed to release the CCTV and dashcam footage to The Northern Echo and other media outlets present at the inquest.

The inquest concluded on Friday, September and it was ruled Bainbridge’s death was the result of misadventure.

Mr Oliver, Senior Assistant Coroner for County Durham and Darlington, said: “Members of the Bainbridge family I wish you well in the future.”