A ‘YOB’ who ran over a man who tried to stop him from speeding has avoided a jail sentence.

Unemployed Michael Kitchen, 20, was charged with dangerous driving after running over the man’s foot in The Leys, in Witney, last July.

Kitchen, from Poffley End, near Hailey, was found guilty by a jury on April 7 and sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday.

He was hanging around with a group of friends at the time of the incident.

Judge Anthony King said: “It was a bit of yobbish behaviour and when this member of the public sought to reprimand him he drove straight at him with the intent to get him to move out of the way. When he did not move out of the way, he hit him.”

The court heard Kitchen already had three points on his licence for speeding. But Adrian Amer, defending, said he had changed his ways and was working hard to get a job. He described him as “a man of good character.”

Passing sentence, Judge King told Kitchen “You are going to have to learn to grow up and do something constructive with your life instead of hanging around in motor cars with your friends and getting yourselves into trouble.”

Kitchen was given a 100-day prison sentence, suspended for 18 months. He was also ordered to do 100 hours of community service, told to pay £900 costs and banned from driving for 12 months.