A drink driver who mowed down five pedestrians in Edinburgh’s city centre has been jailed for 20 months.
Mohamed Bouhnika was more than four times the legal alcohol limit when he ploughed into three women and two men.
The horrifying crashes where caught on CCTV with victims seen somersaulting into the air in Rose Street after being struck by the Ford Fiesta.
Bouhnika appeared from custody at the city’s sheriff court on Wednesday and was handed the prison term.
Sheriff Douglas Keir also disqualified the 37-year-old from driving for 47 months.
Bouhnika was caught by police after he hit other vehicles in nearby Lothian Road where one of his car tyres was ripped off.
Following the shocking incident, Police Scotland moved quickly to quell fears and confirmed it wasn’t terror-related.
At a hearing earlier this month, Bouhnika admitted charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and drink driving.
During that hearing, fiscal depute Rosie Cook played a clip showing the pedestrian collisions in Rose Street at around 12.40am on September 12 last year.
The graphic video showed the impacts as helpless victims were struck before other people rushed to offer aid.
Ms Cook said Zoe Brown and James McBride had been walking on a pavement beside the junction between Rose Street and Frederick Street.
She said Bouhnika was driving a blue Fiesta which was travelling south on Frederick Street and turned into Rose Street “at speed”.
The prosecutor said the impact caused “them to be thrown into the air and landing on the pavement”.
She added: “The vehicle carried on travelling at speed.”
Ms Cook said police constables Keith Morrison and Cyprian Kromiszewski, who were on foot patrol in the area, had to “take avoiding action” to escape being hit.
The court heard Cassie Reid was struck next by the Fiesta’s front nearside “causing her to fall to the ground”.
Ms Cook said the car then hit James Parker and Margaret Ewing “carrying them along the front of the vehicle for a period of time before they fell into the roadway”.
The Fiesta continued along Rose Street, the court was told, as police put out urgent appeals to track it down.
The car emerged westbound onto Princes Street and turned onto Lothian Road, Ms Cook said.
She told how it approached a Honda Civic driven by Frederico Rossi and a Peugeot driven by John McKechnie which had both stopped at red lights.
Bouhnika “attempted to drive between the vehicles making contact with both”, said Ms Cook.
She said the Fiesta’s tyre “became dislodged” which brought it to a halt. Four police officers arrived on the scene and detained Bouhnika.
Bouhnika admitted driving with 93 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 22mg.
He pled guilty to causing Margaret Ewing serious injury and injuries to Zoe Brown, James McBride, Cassie Reid and James Parker.
The court heard Margaret suffered a right rib fracture and dislocated right shoulder, spending three days in hospital.
James McBride suffered abrasions to his head and a grazed cheek while Zoe suffered a hemotoma to the back of her head, a cheek abrasion and shoulder bruising.
Cassie suffered a chest injury and had a seizure where she blacked out, the court was told.
James Parker was kept in hospital for observation until being released.
At the earlier hearing, defence agent Simon Collins said was “very ashamed of his actions” and “this particular episode was out of character for him”.
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