A two-hour chase through the countryside near Looe ended on Sunday with police arresting a naked 27-year-old man who had been drink-driving, magistrates in Bodmin heard on Tuesday. As well as admitting the drink-drive offence, Martin Michael Marlow of Martinfield Road, Penwortham, Preston, in Lancashire also pleaded guilty to driving without insurance, damaging a pair of handcuffs belonging to the Devon and Cornwall Police, obstructing an officer in the execution of his duty, assaulting a woman police constable and committing a public order offence arising from his having thrown railway ballast at an officer. The court adjourned the hearing after listening to the evidence and remitted the charges for sentencing to Preston Magistrates' Court on Monday where Marlow is due to appear on other matters including a further drink-drive allegation. Marlow was granted conditional bail requiring him to live at his address and undergo a tagged curfew between the hours of 8pm and 6am daily. An interim driving ban was also imposed. Elaine Hobson, prosecuting, said police had been alerted to a drink-driver in the Trerulefoot area on the evening of Sunday, June 10, and Marlow and his Seat car were eventually spotted at 8pm by PC Stuart Hannaford in a layby at Sandplace near Looe. When the officer stopped and spoke to Marlow, he gave three different names and then claimed someone else had been driving the car and that they were in the nearby woods. PC Hannaford arrested and handcuffed him, placing him in a secure police vehicle, but before it had travelled far it had to stop because the defendant had begun to remove the cuffs, said Miss Hobson. 'Considerable force must have been used because he managed to bend the handcuffs out of shape,' she said. Marlow then became violent and abusive and WPC Tracy Stockton was assaulted. Although a disabling spray and electronic baton were used on him, they had little effect and Marlow, whose shirt was ripped off in the struggle, ran off across a railway track towards Looe. As he did so he threw three large rocks from the trackbed at PC Hannaford. A total of 20 officers, police dogs and the force helicopter then began a search for him and he was eventually seen, totally naked, in a field and after a further pursuit was arrested and taken to Launceston Police Station where a test revealed 53mcgs of alcohol in a 100ml specimen of his breath. The legal limit is 35mcgs. Miss Hobson told the court that police dog Boris eventually found most of Marlow's clothing. Marlow made a full admission to the offences but said he could not recall throwing stones at PC Hannaford, although he accepted the officers' descriptions of what had happened. He told them he had been 'really stupid' and apologised. John Evans, defending, said Marlow had driven to Cornwall after work the previous Friday evening to visit his ex-partner and family in St Germans, from who he had separated three months earlier. After being spoken to by the police officer who first found him, he panicked, landing himself in even deeper trouble.