Best News: Marlon King jailed for 18 months for dangerous driving



A former Premier League footballer has been jailed for 18 months for dangerous driving after a three-car crash left a man with a fractured elbow.

Ex-Sheffield United striker Marlon King was driving a Porsche on the A46 near Newark in Nottinghamshire when the crash happened in April last year.

The 35-year-old victim was airlifted to hospital after the collision.

King, of Torkey, Lincolnshire, was jailed in 2009 for sexually assaulting a woman and breaking her nose.

The Jamaican international has a number of other previous convictions including for dishonesty, drinking and driving and other motoring offences, including a prison sentence for handling a stolen car, while playing for Gillingham in 2002.

King, whose previous clubs include Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Watford, Wigan, Coventry City, Hull City, Leeds United and Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving at an earlier hearing at Nottingham Crown Court.

He has been banned from driving for three years.

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