CRIMINALS jailed this month include a gang who used a car as a weapon in Worcester, a man who headbutted a female police officer at the city’s hospital and a thug who knocked a 16-year-old girl unconscious.

Marius-anton Roman mounted the pavement in his Mercedes in the city’s Vincent Road, shattering the shin bone of former friend, Madalin Oanta.

His accomplices - Ionut Tudor, 19, and Cristi-danniel Stefanescu, 20 - then jumped out of the Mercedes and rained down punches and kicks on the clearly injured and by now helpless Mr Oanta in front of horrified onlookers.

Roman, 33, was jailed for 10 and half years at Worcester Crown Court for inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent (section 18) on August 2 last year.

Tudor and Stefanescu were both jailed for 17 months for assault occasioning actual bodily harm. All three face automatic deportation to Romania.

Telmo Amaral Fernandes was jailed for five months after he headbutted a female police officer and gave her a concussion, whiplash and caused swelling while handcuffed in the back of a police car at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. The customer service assistant of Wood Terrace, Worcester was jailed for five months at Worcester Crown Court for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The headbutt occurred on October 1 last year after police were called to reports of a male, believed to be under the influence of drink or drugs, driving erratically in the hospital carpark and damaging a number of vehicles.

Cornel Gheorghe, 34, was jailed for 16 months after he stole more than £8,000 worth of goods from Boots in Worcester High Street and it is now expected he will be deported to his native Romania.

The Home Secretary is required to deport any foreign national who has received a custodial sentence of at least 12 months, unless a specified exception applies. In total he stole £8,227 worth of goods from Boots during three separate raids in which he made off with cosmetics and other products, including toothbrush heads, No7 skincare creams, mascara and razor blades, emptying them into carrier bags and gift bags. Jamie Whittingham, 28, of St Martin’s Avenue, Hereford was jailed for 23 months for two separate attacks, one on an ex-partner and the other on a girl of 16 whom he knocked unconscious.