A Dundee man who battered another man with a golf club before driving his car over his leg as he lay on the ground has been jailed for three years.
Derek Todd was also told by Sheriff Elizabeth Munro that he will be supervised for a year after his release date.
Telling Todd a custodial sentence was inevitable, the sheriff also disqualified him from driving for four years and ordered him to resit the extended driving test before he can get his driving licence back.
She also sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment for a second charge of dangerous driving, which will run alongside the three-year sentence.
Todd was previously found guilty after trial by a jury of assaulting Andrew Robertson at Coupar Angus Road, Dundee, on November 4 2011, by repeatedly striking him on the body with a golf club and driving his car at him, driving over his right leg as he lay on the ground to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life.
He was also found guilty of driving dangerously by reversing at speed from a private road into Coupar Angus Road, crossing the central divide and causing another vehicle to take evasive action.
Todd, 44, of Lundie Avenue, had denied the offences, claiming Mr Robertson had attacked him and had poured petrol through his car window, partially blinding him.
The court heard Todd had turned up at his door following an earlier disagreement.
He claimed Todd first poured petrol over him before getting a golf club from his car and battering him with it.
Mr Robertson said that after that incident he went back into his house to check on his two-year-old daughter before going out to find his Japanese akita dog, which had got out into the garden.
He said that he walked down the driveway to find Todd still in his Volkswagen Polo car.
Mr Robertson told Dundee Sheriff Court: “I pleaded with him to go. He said ‘I’m going to f****** kill you I’m going to crush you against the wall’.
“That was when he was revving the engine up. I tried to hide in the trees where I thought I’d be safer.
“He was determined to kill me basically. I was under the car and smoke was belching from the tyres or the engine.
“I could just feel an excruciating pain in my leg. I was traumatised I had to have two operations.”
Solicitor Theo Finlay said Todd was the victim, suggesting to Mr Robertson in court that: “He was partially blinded and got out with the golf club and struck you with it.
“You threatened to set him alight. You followed him down the driveway and tried to hit his car with a hammer and you slipped under the wheels while doing so.
“The way in which you were injured was by slipping under the car as he was trying to get away you brought this on yourself.”
Mr Robertson replied: “No way.”
Sheriff Munro told Todd: “You’ve learned a hard lesson” and backdated the sentence until October 10, when he was remanded in custody after being found guilty.