Dodgems driver is sentenced

A woman who pleaded guilty to causing injury by dangerous driving was in court on Monday to hear her sentence.

The judge heard how Hannah Lamb, 21, of Parsonage Farm, North Elham, purposely drove into another woman’s car, injuring the driver and two other passengers.

She was given a 10-month suspended prison sentence for two years, banned from driving for one year and ordered to do 100 hours community service. She must also pay two of the victims £1,000 each in compensation and she has been electronically-tagged for four months.

The incident happened back in April. Lamb had become increasingly annoyed with her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend, Kirsty Watts, and claimed Miss Watts had been stalking the couple for weeks. Lamb told the court how she planned to lure Miss Watts to a car park and confront her.

Her and her boyfriend, Matthew Bibby, decided to write on Facebook that they were going to the McDonalds Drive-Thru on Sturry Road to see if Miss Watts would turn up there as well. When she did, she parked up with her sister, Kylie, and another passenger in the back.

Then, Lamb, who was alone in her Fiat Punto, drove at 30mph and smashed into Miss Watts’s car. Her and her sister both suffered serious whiplash injuries and the third passenger went to hospital with a jaw injury.

Lamb’s barrister, Oliver Saxby, said: “She knows what she did was wrong and that she has to pay for it.” She now has to remain indoors between 9pm and 6am as a condition of her tag.