A thug who flung dangerous chemicals into the face of a good Samaritan in the street during a crime spree has been jailed.

Isaac Kiggundu’s victim suffered burns to his eyes alongside severe respiratory complications following the attack in Dover.

The 25-year-old was jailed at Canterbury Crown Court for six years. May 5

Jason and Sarah Head had tried preventing the 25-year-old from beating a woman in the street in Mayfield Gardens in November 2018.

But Mr Head immediately felt burning after Kiggundu squirted the toxic substance from a Lucozade bottle, with some hitting Mrs Head’s ear.

“He felt the liquid hit his face, he immediately fell to the floor, he could taste a vile taste,” Prosecutor Caroline Knight explained.

She told jurors during a trial in September Mr Head felt burning inside his mouth, eyes and over his face.

He rushed inside a nearby property and tried washing the chemical off, while Mrs Head also suffered burning to her ear.

He would be rushed to Ashford’s William Harvey Hospital and suffer “severe respiratory symptoms some days later,” prosecutor Caroline Knight told the trial.

“He was examined and had suffered corneal burns to his eye,” she added.

Kiggundu, of Priory Road, East Ham, denied two counts of occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon, arguing he had been wrongly identified.

But a jury convicted him after deliberating for a little over an hour.

Kiggundu also fell to be sentenced for a catalogue of other crimes.

Less than a year after attacking Mr and Mrs Head, the trainee carpenter tried accelerating away from police and crashed into a fence in October, 2019.

He would deny aggravated vehicle taking, driving while disqualified and without insurance however, magistrates convicted him in January, 2021.

In December 2019 he was charged and later pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing heroin with intent to supply, alongside two counts of possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply.

He also admitted possessing criminal property.

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And in December 2021 police stopped Kiggundu for driving with overly-tinted windows, Ms Knight explained.

“He became highly agitated and pushed and shoved one officer, he grabbed a branch and brandished that,” she said.

Kiggundu eventually had to be wrestled to the ground.

He admitted two counts of assaulting an emergency worker.

Handing down a six-year sentence Judge Simon James told Kiggundu: “Matters have now caught up with you.”

“It was directed at someone who was a stranger to you, who was trying to stop you from assaulting a woman in the street...”

“Including using a bottle containing a noxious fluid which you used to burn the eyes of your victim.

“It was directed at someone who was a stranger to you, who was trying to stop you from assaulting a woman in the street.”

Kiggundu was also disqualified from driving for two years and eight months.

Elena Papamichael, mitigating, said Kiggundu had been coerced into drug dealing after becoming addicted to cannabis.

She highlighted he had largely stayed out of trouble until his spate of offending, which began in his early 20s, when he struggled with undiagnosed ADHD.

“He is not someone who has had, from his youth, a long series of offending,” she said.