A Thanet motorist was left in agony on the ground with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a speeding drunk driver who had already been banned three times before.

Now a judge has jailed Fareed Ebrahim, also known as Freddie, for three years and four months for causing injury by driving dangerously.

He added that he had sympathy with any “sense of outrage” that the five-year maximum sentence for the offence was inadequate.

Victim David Paul, a 28-year-old mobile phone repairer, had stopped close to Minster petrol station near a roundabout on the A299 Hengist Way in November last year.

Ebrahim had taken the train from his home in Petts Wood to Canterbury, then travelled to Ramsgate to buy a car, despite a five-year driving ban.

Prosecutor Fiona Ryan told Canterbury Crown Court that, after boozing, the 31-year-old plumber had driven at speed in thick fog.

She said his vehicle then struck Mr Paul, who had got out of his car when it broke down. Ebrahim got out of his car but then fled the scene, leaving others to offer aid to the stricken Mr Paul.

He spent 18 days in hospital with a broken back and pelvis but was walking within three months, despite also suffering from pneumonia.

Defence lawyer Ian Bond said Ebrahim lost his job after the accident and accepted his behaviour had been “irrational”.

The registration number of the blue Ford Focus was traced to its previous owner.

The prosecutor said that when Ebrahim was arrested hours later and breathalysed, a calculation revealed he had been more than three times over the drink-drive limit.

In June 2006 he had been caught at the wheel more than two and a half times over the limit and driving while disqualified.

"This was irresponsible, criminal behaviour, knowing full well you were subjected to a driving ban" - Judge Simon James

Three years later he was prosecuted again for being three times over the limit and in April 2012 he received a five-year ban for being nearly four times over the drink-drive limit.

In July 2013 he was given a nine-week suspended sentence for driving while disqualified.

Judge Simon James told Ebrahim: “Your disregard for court orders borders on contempt.

“You have no regard for anyone but yourself. You left the scene, leaving your seriously injured victim with potentially life-threatening injuries.”

Ebrahim, who admitted causing injury by driving dangerously and with excess alcohol and while banned, was given a fresh five-year ban, which will begin when he is released from jail.