THIS is the horrifying moment a drink-driver mounted the pavement and ploughed into revellers after being barred from entering a pub.
Mustafa Esmail, 21, jumped into a rented VW Golf and sent party-goers flying outside the Red Onion shisha bar in Brixton, South London.
One victim, chef Fuad Ahmed, 43, suffered multiple fractures to his arm, a broken ankle, a fractured nose and his eye popped out of its socket.
Others were left with “horrendous injuries” that are “likely to resonate down the years”, the Old Bailey heard.
Esmail has now been caged for 12 years with an extended license period of four additional years after admitting five charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
The court was told Esmail had been barred from entering the bar on December 2017 as there was a private party so he started swinging punches at late night revellers.
Sozzled Esmail then got behind the wheel of an Ubeeqo rental car and deliberately rammed five people who were stood on the pavement outside the bar at 38mph.
The court heard Mr Ahmed had now lost his livelihood working as a chef and a mechanic because of the horrific injuries to his arm, ankle and eye.
He can’t walk without crutches and is dependent on painkillers, which has affected his mental health.
The chef said: “In short, this person, the defendant, has ruined my life.”
Sentencing, Judge John Dodd, QC, said: “You drove the car mercilessly and quite deliberately. There is, in my view, something particularly cowardly about the using of a car as a weapon.
“This was a shocking and terrifying event, fuelled by at least drink.
“You were turned away because the venue was hosting a private party, you fought with the door staff before beating a retreat.
“Your parting shot was, however, to say that you would be back. With you at the wheel, that car plainly became a lethal weapon.”
Esmail, who has a previous conviction for attacking his mum, also admitted battering Aaron Thomson with a bottle outside a Brighton nightclub after selling him a wrap of fake cocaine.
The thug also punched him repeatedly in the savage attack in 2017 outside Coalition, which left the victim with injuries to his neck, head and face.
He was give nine months concurrent for the attack after admitting a single count actual bodily harm against Mr Thomson.
The prosecution offered no evidence on five counts of attempted murder in respect of the driving incident.
