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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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| A former Premier League footballer has been jailed for 18 months for dangerous driving after a three-car crash left a man with a fractured elbow. | A former Premier League footballer has been jailed for 18 months for dangerous driving after a three-car crash left a man with a fractured elbow. |
| Ex-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 35-year-old victim was airlifted to hospital after the collision. | The 35-year-old victim was airlifted to hospital after the collision. |
| King, 34, who was a Birmingham City player at the time of the crash, was jailed in 2009 for sexual assault. | |
| The footballer, of Torksey, Lincolnshire, served 18 months for groping a woman and then breaking her nose in a London club. | |
| 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. | |
| He has been banned from driving for three years. | He has been banned from driving for three years. |