A TERRIFIED antiques dealer was left desperately clinging on to the bonnet of a car after an East Lancashire motorist drove at him, carrying him down the street.

CCTV captured the moment Simon Webster was left spreadeagled on the car being driven by Mandy McGuigan, 42.

Mr Webster had tried to stop her from driving off in her Peugeot 307 because he suspected she had been drinking.

But after standing in front of the car she drove at him, dragging him out of the car park and down the street, before Mr Webster eventually fell from the moving car, suffering injuries including a broken shoulder.

McGuigan, of Tennyson Road, Colne, pleaded guilty to maliciously wounding Mr Webster and to dangerous driving after the incident last June outside Heathcote Antiques in Skipton Road, Cross Hills, near Keighley.

She will be sentenced by Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC on June 22, exactly a year after committing the offences.

The judge said the case had been reviewed with very great care before the Crown took the decision to accept a plea to the lesser offence rather than one of intending to cause him grievous bodily harm.

But he warned McGuigan: “The plea in no way diminishes the seriousness of the offence.”

Judge Durham Hall asked the probation service to assess McGuigan in the light of a psychiatric report already obtained by her defence lawyers.

He said he was giving no indication of sentence and asked for a full victim impact statement from Mr Webster to be available on the sentencing day.

Judge Durham Hall told McGuigan: “You know this is serious, don’t you?” before extending her bail.

Staff at Heathcote Antiques suspected McGuigan had been drinking when she tried to sell them a picture.

Prosecutor Abigail Langford said she smelled of alcohol and her speech was believed to be slurred.

The court heard that, although she had drunk one can of beer, McGuigan was not over the legal limit for driving and had never been charged with that offence.