Man Jailed For £20,000 Drunken Rampage on Dumper Truck

by Kirsty Scott

A building worker who went on a drunken rampage with a 40-tonne dumper truck and left a £20,000 trail of destruction was jailed for 18 months yesterday.

Maidstone crown court heard how one woman thought she was going to die as 29-year-old Christopher Mills careered through a residential estate in Kent in the giant vehicle on June 13, flattening cars, demolishing a block of garages and felling a telegraph pole.

Mills, who the court heard feared he was about to lose his job working on a new bypass, had drunk a bottle of whisky and was six times over the legal alcohol limit for driving when he took the dumper truck at the end of his shift.

His rampage only came to an end after a member of the public and an off-duty policeman pulled him from the truck.