A door supervisor has told how he feared it was a terrorist attack when a car drove into a crowded nightclub, injuring several people.

Janusz Fusinak had been forced to jump out of the way of Mohammed Abdul’s car as it sped into a marquee at Blake’s in Gravesend.

First, he tried to kick in the screen of the Suzuki Vitara and when that failed he picked up an aluminium table and attempted to break a window with it. That also failed.

“I saw quite a few people on the driver’s side,” Mr Fusinak told a jury: “I wasn’t sure what was going to happen next. I suspected this was a terrorist attack and there could be explosives. I thought to myself it isn’t finished yet. It isn’t over.”

But Maidstone Crown Court has heard it was not a terrorist incident, but Abdul, 21, taking revenge for being ejected shortly before because he was drunk.

Prosecutor Simon Taylor said it was “a determined and indiscriminate effort to cause carnage and death to anyone who was in his way”.

Abdul was said to have warned one of the door staff: “If I can’t come in, I’m going to come back and shut this place down and kill you guys.”

A few minutes later, shortly before midnight on March 17, he started to drive down an alleyway at the side of the Queen Street nightclub.

A doorman tried to stop him, but he continued as staff and customers, aged 17 to 25, jumped out of the way.

Mr Taylor said as Abdul approached the marquee being used as part of the club, with a dance floor and DJ booth, he stopped for about nine seconds, “no doubt to make a final decision about what he was going to do next”, before driving into it at speed, hitting several people.

“He travelled for a distance of around five to 10 metres and gave the customers and staff, who were in his wake, no time to react,” he told the jury of seven men and five women.

“As a consequence, some of the occupants of the marquee were hit by the car and thrown onto the bonnet and then onto the floor.”

Abdul reversed, but was overpowered by door staff and customers and left injured.

Most seriously hurt of the eight people struck were Pierre Joseph, a cameraman who was at the club to film rapper Giggs, and customer Katie Wells.

Mr Joseph suffered a fractured left shinbone and bruises and Miss Wells, who was standing just inside the marquee smoking, had a fractured pelvis and bruises.

Mr Fusinak said he was working in the marquee just before midnight when he saw the car in the alleyway. He could hear the engine accelerating and saw headlights.

“I decided to save myself and jump,” he said, “The car went past my legs and into the marquee. I jumped and went onto my arms. The car went into the middle of the marquee and then stopped.

“I started running after the car. It was reversing. I had to jump away again. I think I landed on my side. I looked back and saw the car had stopped.

“I thought it was a good moment to stop who was inside, to stop him carrying on what he was doing. I tried to kick the screen on the passenger side but couldn’t break the glass.

“I grabbed an aluminium table next to me. I picked it up and bashed the window. It didn’t break the glass.”

Mr Fusinak said he saw people on the driver’s side and he tried to get through the crowd.

“I started running after the car. It was reversing. I had to jump away again. I think I landed on my side. I looked back and saw the car had stopped" - Janusz Fusinak

“The driver was already on the floor,” he said. “One of my colleagues was grabbing his legs. The driver was unconscious.”

Abdul, of McMillan Street, Deptford, south east London, denies two charges of attempting to murder people in the vicinity of the nightclub and an alternative of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.

He also denies two charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Mr Joseph and Miss Wells.

He admits two offences of causing serious injury by dangerous driving to Mr Joseph and Miss Wells.

The trial continues.