A baseball bat wielding thug nearly died when he was knocked off a stolen scooter and sent crashing into a wall.
Connor Carr was locked up for three years and two months yesterday over a brutal gang attack captured on CCTV cameras.
He was in a car which mowed down Joshua Pennington, sending him flying through the air, before the victim was battered with weapons.
Carr and two unknown masked men broke the 26-year-old's arm, wrist and fingers, and also left him with a stab wound to his shin in July, allegedly in revenge for an earlier incident.
Front-seat passenger Carr - who forgot to wear a mask - was also sentenced over a dangerous scrambler bike chase in January.
The bungling idiot sped through red lights on the wrong side of the road and along pavements, but was caught by police when he ran out of petrol.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the 22-year-old, of Oxton Road, Birkenhead, already had an "appalling" record for driving offences, including a conviction in 2016 for stealing and crashing a Nissan Navara, when he left his DNA on the driver's airbag.
Now the ECHO can reveal how another chase, when the banned driver was on a stolen scooter, left him fighting for his life.
Convicted drug dealer Carr, then 19, was riding the vehicle on a rainy night in Oxton, Birkenhead on November 4, 2017.
He realised he was being pursued by apprentice electrician Luke Hughes in his BMW 3 series at around 10pm. Hughes rightly believed it was a stolen scooter.
Carr kept turning his head to look back and on Christchurch Road decelerated and suddenly turned right at a junction, in a bid to escape Hughes.
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But when he did, Hughes' car rammed the back of the scooter, causing it to hit a wall where Carr was left lying in the road.
He had suffered a fractured skull and subarachnoid haemorrhage - a life-threatening type of stroke caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain.
Hughes drove off and abandoned the BMW with the engine running about two and a half miles away at Storeton Woods.
Police found pieces from the front of the BMW at the crash scene, discovered the abandoned vehicle and matched the damage.
They went to Hughes' home, where he calmly admitted pursuing the scooter and accepted he hadn't left enough distance between the two vehicles given the bad weather.
Carr was taken to hospital where he spent three weeks in a coma and then remained in bed for a further three weeks, before discharging himself.
Hughes, then 21, who had no previous convictions and no penalty points on his licence, denied causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
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He was set to stand trial in April 2018 but pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of careless driving, which was accepted by prosecutors.
Judge David Aubrey, QC, said: "In my view the Crown Prosecution Service have correctly accepted a plea to driving without due care and attention."
He said the law regarding that offence didn't allow him to take into account Carr's "unfortunate injuries" and the maximum sentence was a fine.
That meant Hughes walked free from court after being told to pay a £250 fine, plus £250 prosecutions costs, and handed six penalty points.
Judge Aubrey told Hughes, of Cotswold Road, Prenton: "Your victim was riding a motorcycle. It was a stolen vehicle and you had made the decision to pursue that cycle.
"It was at the time an unwise decision and, of course in hindsight, this court has no doubt you also perceive it to have been an unwise decision."
He added: "The extent of his permanent injury may to some extent be in dispute, but there is in my judgement no doubt that he sustained life changing injuries."
Carr was charged with aggravated vehicle taking in relation to the incident and, in July that same year, was handed a suspended sentence of eight weeks in jail.
However, this was later activated when he was sent to prison in January 2019, after being caught with cannabis.
When sentencing Carr yesterday, the judge, Recorder Michael Taylor, said his "appalling" driving record was an aggravating feature of his latest road offences.
Despite nearly dying in a crash just two years previously, Carr spent his 22nd birthday - on January 4 this year - racing around on a scrambler bike, endangering the lives of other road users, pedestrians and, of course, himself.
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He admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance over that incident and pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon over the July 27 gang attack.
Carr was jailed for 38 months in total and banned from the road for 31 months.
