Corey Morgan (Image: Gwent Police)
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A man who deliberately rammed a car four times while a pregnant woman and her baby son were inside has been jailed for eight months.
Recorder Greg Bull KC condemned Corey Morgan’s actions at Cardiff Crown Court, telling the 21-year-old: “You have nobody to blame but yourself. You were lucky you weren’t killed and lucky that other people weren’t killed. This was deliberate driving of a disgraceful nature.”
Morgan, of Plantation Row, Ebbw Vale, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. He was also disqualified from driving and must pass an extended test before he can regain his licence.
The background
Prosecutor Rob Simkins outlined how events began at around 10pm on Saturday, July 12 last year, when the victim – a pregnant mother – had taken her young son out in her car to help him sleep.
She met a friend who had been arguing with her then-partner Morgan and drove her to his address to collect some belongings. A confrontation followed, during which Morgan threatened to ram them.
The pursuit
Morgan, who had taken cocaine, smoked cannabis and been drinking, then got behind the wheel of his Vauxhall Corsa and pursued the women through the Glyncoed area of Ebbw Vale.
He wrote off a stationary Vauxhall Astra during the chase. The women and the baby briefly managed to get away, but Morgan located them again and rammed their Kia Rio three times.
“The driver at this point was terrified that he would kill her and her baby,” Mr Simkins said.
He then pulled alongside the vehicle and struck it a fourth time before losing control and colliding with a tree at the Cwm Draw Industrial Estate. His Vauxhall Corsa ended up on its roof.
Aftermath
The crash left Morgan with a fractured skull, a broken neck and a bleed on the brain. He spent two weeks being treated at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
Officers who attended the scene found cans of alcohol inside his vehicle. Morgan lied about being behind the wheel, telling police: “I weren’t driving.”
Defence and sentencing
His barrister Sali Harmes told the court Morgan had no previous convictions and had shown “empathy” towards his victims, adding: “He made a massive, massive mistake.”
As he was led to the cells, a woman was heard crying in the public gallery. Morgan called out from the dock: “I love you Mam.”
