A MAN who has served jail time for attempted murder used his car as a weapon during a road-rage attack.

Dean Creighton stopped in his Jaguar X-type sport front of his victims' car and reversed into it, after tailgating the vehicle.

And the following day he was arrested in a car park outside RAF Lyneham after passers bay saw him ranting and raving and attacking his own Jaguar.

Now, after hearing he suffered from schizophrenia, a judge imposed a suspended sentence with a mental health requirement and banned him from the road.

Kerry Barker, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court a couple going to the gym in north Swindon were in their own Jaguar in Mead Way on Monday, November 17.

"They were driving within the speed limit and another Jaguar was behind them driving really close to them," he said.

As they went over a roundabout by the Skoda garage the car behind carried out a 'really aggressive overtake at speed'.

Worried about what might be about to happen he said the woman got out her mobile phone and started to film the driving of the car in front.

"He stopped really hard. He then reversed in to their car at speed and smashed in to the front of the car."

The couple locked the doors and called the police while Creighton sat in his car on the roundabout staring back at them before turning his lights off and driving away.

Mr Barker said he was arrested the following day after he was seen shouting and screaming at people in Lyneham and connected with the road rage incident.

When he was questioned he told police 'I wanted to take the car out behind me, it was my heart rather than my head.

'I wanted the car off the road. I didn't want that car on the road because they were recording me and panic set in'.

Creighton, of Yeovil, Somerset, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving.

The court heard he had a previous conviction for a similar offence an other driving matters and was jailed in Spain for attempted murder.

Derek Perry, defending, said his client served more than three weeks in custody on remand and ten weeks on a curfew while on bail, meaning anything but a long prison sentence would lead to his being released immediately or very soon.

He said that having not taken his medication he had got into a state following an argument and drove until he ran out of petrol.

"There were reports of him in a car par, distraught, kicking his own car," he said.

"There is ample evidence in this report of him wanting to engage with the mental health services.

"Getting arrested by the police was probably the best for him.

"The damage was not great though the vehicle was clearly used as a weapon."

Judge Peter Blair QC said: "The driving which you did on November 17 was extremely dangerous.

"It was using your vehicle as a weapon and would properly be described as road rage: you getting angry and reversing into the front of another vehicle and causing come damage.

"It is plain you were behaving in the manner you were because of your psychiatric condition."

He imposed an eight-month jail term suspended for two years with a mental health treatment requirement and a two-year driving ban.