Nine Years? - The Sentence Is Paltry And An Insult To Justice!

Leigh Robinson, 32, gave a defiant two-finger salute as he arrived at court, but has now been jailed for nine years for deliberately driving at a crowd of revellers outside Four Six One Bar in Withington, south Manchester, while drunk and high on cocaine. The father-of-one carried out a handbrake turn in his father's high-performance BMW in a sickening attempt to run down Duaine Lindsay following a fight outside the bar. However, he was so drunk that the luxury car veered out of control, crashed into bollards and ploughed into a sandwich shop - trapping DJ Patricia Costello against the shutters. Miss Costello, 36, who had been stood outside the shop talking on her mobile phone suffered serious leg injuries in the impact of the collision, which occurred in the early hours of December 6 last year. Despite emergency treatment, she has been left confined to a wheelchair and doctors say she may never be able to walk again without the assistance of a stick. Mail.