Shocking CCTV footage was shown to a court today as a man was jailed indefinitely for ploughing through a crowd outside a nightclub in northern England in a stolen car.
Revellers were knocked down as they fled from Lee Anthony Bradley (26), as he sped along the pavement in a Saab 93, Bolton Crown Court heard.
Fourteen people - seven women and seven men - were taken to hospital with injuries following the incident last October outside a strip of bars and clubs on Packer Street in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
The court heard it was a “miracle” no one was killed.
Bradley handed himself in to police on November 2nd and admitted a string of offences committed in the incident in the early hours of Sunday, October 17th.
Judge William Morris, Recorder of Bolton, said Bradley, already a convicted killer with a conviction for manslaughter when he was just 16, posed a danger to the public and must remain behind bars until it is considered safe to release him.
Judge Morris passed an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment for public protection and ruled the defendant must serve a minimum of six years before he can apply for parole
“You were deliberately using this motor vehicle as a weapon, a fearsome weapon,2 he said. “So many were injured by what you did, it is a truly exceptional feature of this case. As for their injuries, any one of them could have been so much worse, one or more of them could so easily have been killed.
“You will not be released, in fact, until the parole board decide that it is safe to release you again into the community.”
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