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| Marlon King jailed for 18 months for dangerous driving | Marlon King jailed for 18 months for dangerous driving |
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| An ex-Premier League footballer who caused a pile-up while eating ice cream at the wheel has been jailed for 18 months for dangerous driving. | |
| Former Watford and Wigan striker Marlon King was driving a Porsche on the A46 near Newark in Nottinghamshire when the crash happened in April last year. | |
| The three-car pile-up left a 35-year-old man with a fractured elbow. | |
| King, 34, who was a Birmingham City player at the time of the crash, was also jailed in 2009 for sexual assault. | |
| 'Aggressive and arrogant' | |
| The footballer, of Torksey, Lincolnshire, served 18 months for groping a woman and then breaking her nose in a London club. | The footballer, of Torksey, Lincolnshire, served 18 months for groping a woman and then breaking her nose in a London club. |
| Sentencing King at Nottingham Crown Court, Recorder Paul Mann QC said: "I do not regard your case as merely impulsive or silly behaviour. It was aggressive. It was arrogant." | |
| The judge also handed King a three-year driving ban. | |
| The Jamaican international has a number of other previous convictions including for dishonesty, drinking and driving and other motoring offences, including a prison sentence for handling a stolen car, while playing for Gillingham in 2002. | The Jamaican international has a number of other previous convictions including for dishonesty, drinking and driving and other motoring offences, including a prison sentence for handling a stolen car, while playing for Gillingham in 2002. |
| King, whose previous clubs include Sheffield United, Nottingham Forest, Coventry City, Hull City, Leeds United and Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving at an earlier hearing at Nottingham Crown Court. | King, whose previous clubs include Sheffield United, Nottingham Forest, Coventry City, Hull City, Leeds United and Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving at an earlier hearing at Nottingham Crown Court. |