A delivery driver whose truck struck a security guard in a "moment of madness" during demonstrations at Kingsnorth power station has escaped a jail sentence.

Keith Killick was sentenced to eight weeks imprisonment suspended for nine months and ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work. He was banned from driving for 12 months

Maidstone Crown Court heard the 53-year-old father-of-six clashed with security guards when he arrived at the power station with a load of timber on April 8 last year.

Killick, who had worked for Jewson for seven years and had been to Kingsnorth many times before, was prevented by the guards from driving onto the site.

When one of them asked him to sign a log book, he refused and swore. The guard went to pick up a traffic cone and walk to the front of the truck.

The lorry struck him and he ended up hanging onto the side as it moved towards the site entrance. Killick then reversed away from the scene.
The guard escaped with minor injuries.

After watching film of the incident, Judge Philip St John-Stevens told Killick: "I am quite satisfied that you were not using it as a weapon. It was a moment of madness exhibited as dangerous driving."

Killick, of Main Road, Hoo, admitted dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.

Having seen the film, Judge St John-Stevens said he had changed his original view that Killick should go to prison.