A DOORMAN was left wishing he went home instead of to a random party after the night ended with him being arrested for reversing a car into a truck.

Jamie Kew, of Church View, Highworth, finished work and was walking home when a woman pulled up next to him and asked if he wanted a lift.

Believing luck was on his side, the 28-year-old got in and was then invited by the woman, who is a carer, to join her at a party, the court was told.

Swindon Magistrates Court also heard that the pair went shopping for alcohol before heading to the get-together.

“The time came to go home and off he went,” said Philip Hall, defending Kew.

“Fortune came and took a keen view on him. She said she would give him a lift home but had a few loose ends to tie up and he waited in the car.

“Mr Kew said he was sat in the driver’s seat and turned the engine on to listen to music.

“What happens next, as a non-driver, Mr Kew is unable to explain, let alone understand.

“The woman says the car began to move backwards towards a tuck. When the collision occurred, at a very low speed, the car came off worse.

“It was a short but fateful distance. It is one party he wishes he never attended.”

Kew was then arrested by police at the scene around midday near Milverton Court in Park North and was charged with driving a vehicle while more than double the drink-drive limit, driving without a licence, without insurance and for taking the vehicle and damaging it.

It was unclear if the car had been left in gear without the handbrake on.

Explaining the woman’s version of events, James Burnham from the Crown Prosecution Service said: “She was at a friend’s house and had parked her vehicle in a parking area.

“She was stood on grass area near the car. Her bag with her car keys inside was in the passenger side.

“She was talking on the phone and heard her car start and she looked towards the car and saw it start to creep backwards and saw it was the defendant inside.

“She shouted ‘Yo, yo, stop.’ She knew the defendant was drunk. She ran after the car and started catching up with it."

“’It went almost in a straight line and hit a truck,’” she wrote in a statement read to the court. “'I saw lots of glass fall out of the back window.’"

Bench chairman Felicity Dowell told Kew it was 'an unfortunate series of events.'

She imposed a 12 month community order, 180 hours of unpaid work and a 22 month disqualification from driving, as well as court costs totalling £325.