A DRIVER who caused a motorway smash that seriously injured two of his passengers was let off his curfew by magistrates — to enjoy a five-day stag do overseas.

Jon Morton was behind the wheel of a BMW that crashed on the M61 in August last year which led to Amy Baxter, 28, being paralysed from the neck down and her friend Hayley Jones, 32, had extensive injuries.

Morton, 32, admitted drink driving and driving without due care and attention on March 25 at Bolton Magistrates’ Court and was sentenced the same day.

He was disqualified from driving for three years and received a community order that included a 20-week electronically-monitored 7pm to 7am curfew but just two weeks later Morton returned to court to apply to vary the curfew ‘on the ground that it is in the interests of justice’.

The magistrates agreed he could have five days off ‘because of a pre-arranged holiday’ and he has since posted pictures on Facebook of himself enjoying the bachelor party holiday.

The photos prompted outrage from the victims’ families and their MP for Rossendale and Darwen, Jake Berry who raised the case during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.

He told David Cameron: “Jon Morton, a drink driver, destroyed the lives of Amy Baxter and Hayley Jones, with Ms Baxter so severely injured she is paralysed from the neck down and still in hospital 16 months later.

“Would my Right Honourable friend look into issuing guidance to magistrates that a tag, when part of a sentence, should never be removed to allow criminals to go on holiday?”

Mr Cameron said the fellow Conservative made a ‘very powerful point’ and called the case ‘incredibly distressing’.

Mr Berry has launched a campaign, along with Ms Baxter’s mother Pauline Baxter, from Darwen, lobbying for the introduction of a new offence of causing serious injury by drink-driving or careless driving.

Suspect photos were found on Morton’s mobile phone by police officers investigating the M61 crash. He admitted possessing an indecent image of a child and five counts of possessing extreme animal porn and was fined £500 at Bolton Crown Court and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.

Morton told a newspaper that he applied to get the curfew changed because he was not getting home from work until after 7pm. He said this was when the stag party issue was raised.