A getaway driver has been locked up for his part in a credit card fraud where a postman was attacked as he delivered a letter.

The postman was hijacked by a robber who had set up the scam as he carried the card to the door.

The mailman fell to the ground and was hurt after the tussle with a gang member who grabbed the letter he was holding.

Now psychiatric nurse Oluwakemi Adesaogun is behind bars for his part in the plot, which left the postman so traumatised he later quit.

The occupant at the address, Jan Ford, had his credit card stopped and the gang planned to steal the new one when it arrived.

They even cancelled his mobile phone contract so he couldn’t report the theft.

Now Adesaogun, 41, has been jailed for 26 months for his part in the scam.

He had been with two other thieves who travelled from Essex to Headcorn in a hire car and waited outside Mr Ford’s home in Smarden Road in Headcorn in September last year.

Then as the postman arrived they tried to persuade him to hand over the post but he refused and it led to a member of the gang snatching them away.

“This was a sophisticated planned operation aimed at obtaining personal information..." - Judge Rupert Lowe

The mailman was then threatened and during the robbery he fell over and hurt himself – all caught by CCTV cameras.

The robber then jumped back into the car with Adesaogun and they drove away, the court heard.

Mr Ford, who lived at the house where the letters were to be posted, subsequently contacted investigators and told them he had received a bank card in his own name on September 22 for an account he had not personally opened.

Judge Rupert Lowe was told that the postman was so traumatised by the incident he has since quit work.

When police later raided Adesaogun's home in Antelope Road, Woolwich, in December last year they discovered a number of credit and bank cards, sim cards, personal correspondence in the names of 11 people and £2,000 in cash.

Adesaogun pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal and having items to use in fraud and was given a 26-month jail term.

Canterbury Crown Court was told that in 2012 Adesaogun was jailed for five and a half years for fraud.

Judge Lowe said: “This was a sophisticated planned operation aimed at obtaining personal information. It was disgraceful it was carried out with the threat of force.

“This was committed on a public servant.”

In 2012 Adesaogun was one of three men who used stolen and fabricated data – including the names of sports personalities and deceased children – to set up thousands of fake online VAT and self assessment accounts.

At the peak of the fraud, the trio used more than 20 internet cafes to register up to 310 new accounts a day.