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| An aristocrat who admitted three driving charges including a road rage attack on another motorist's car has been jailed for six months. | An aristocrat who admitted three driving charges including a road rage attack on another motorist's car has been jailed for six months. |
| The Marquess of Blandford, Charles Spencer-Churchill, was jailed on two charges of dangerous driving, one of careless driving and criminal damage. | |
| He admitted the offences at an earlier hearing at Oxford Crown Court. | |
| The son of the Duke of Marlborough is currently being treated at the Priory Hospital in London. | |
| The court heard how the Marquess, aged 51, of Wootton Downs, Oxford, had "retreated into a life of drugs". | |
| His doctor had said his progress would be "undermined by a custodial sentence". | |
| But the judge said: "There cannot be one standard for the unhappy and another for those settled in life. | |
| "Driving like yours is decidedly criminal." |