A conman jailed for staging crash for cash accidents caused another driver to swerve into the path of a lorry during a road-rage incident, a court heard.

Rameo Mohammed drove his BMW in front of the Renault Clio and braked heavily, causing it to veer into another lane of the A2 and collide with the truck.

The former asylum seeker and bodybuilding model had earlier told the other driver he wanted "to knock his teeth out" as they both travelled over the Dartford Crossing.

He later tried to blame a technical fault on his car for the initial heavy braking.

The incident happened last October. In April this year the Iraqi Kurd was jailed for 10 years for conspiracy to defraud between December 2011 and April 2015.

At his trial at Maidstone Crown Court he was linked to 21 "staged or invented" crashes which resulted in insurance payouts running of thousands of pounds.

Mohammed, 30, of Goldcrest Drive, St Mary’s Island, Chatham, was also the "Mr Big" in a human trafficking operation smuggling 87 illegal immigrants into the UK hidden among van loads of second-hand furniture, mattresses and tyres.

The 10-year sentence was imposed for both the insurance fraud and people-smuggling.

Prosecutor Dickon Reid said the road rage happened in the late afternoon of October 9 2015, when a father, travelling with his two sons, squeezed into a line of vehicles in heavy traffic.

Mohammed, who was behind him, flashed his headlights.

The other driver moved away but Mohammed followed. He moved into the inside lane and shouted he wanted to knock the other driver’s teeth out having been cut up.

"He then pulled in front, forcing the driver to brake,” said Mr Reid.

“Traffic was moving relatively slowly and he braked hard, swerved into the inside lane and collided with a lorry.”

He admitted careless driving and was fined £250.

Mohammed was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK after he fled from northern Iraq, where his father worked for the government, in 2001.

He changed his name from Mohammed Sangak in 2012.

Ruth Becker, defending, said any mitigation was "somewhat academic" considering the 10-year sentence imposed.