‘I WISH I had killed her’ - Those were the chilling words of a driver who reversed his car in to a nurse.

Being taken down in to custody as he was sentenced to six months imprisonment, Ian Michael Webber stated "I wish I had killed her" about a woman driver he pushed 100 metres along a road with his car.

Dorchester Crown Court heard how Webber, of Bradford Road Weymouth, 50, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, relating to the incident on October 28 last year.

The court heard how at around 12.20pm on that date, Mary-Jane Cullen was driving in Dorchester on her way to work.

Rufus Taylor, prosecuting, said that as she turned down Duke’s Avenue, off Icen Way, she saw a car blocking the route.

She sat in her car and waited before getting out to see if anyone was coming to move the car, Mr Taylor said.

Mrs Cullen then spoke to Webber’s wife, and asked her politely to move the car before Mrs Webber became abusive.

The court heard how Mrs Webber refused to move the car, at one point telling Mrs Cullen ‘you have patients to see, they will be dead before you get there’.

Mrs Cullen phoned the police and stood behind Webber’s car to stop him and his wife from leaving.

Webber then reversed the car and hit Mrs Cullen in her back and continued to bump her down the road.

One eyewitness said that the bumping moved Mrs Cullen about 100 metres while another said it was around 20 yards.

Webber stopped bumping her and got out the car to shut the boot after it had opened, the court heard.

He then got back in to the car and reversed at full speed towards Mrs Cullen who was forced to jump out of the way.

The court heard how he then drove forward and pushed Mrs Cullen’s car along Duke’s Avenue and out in to the middle of Icen Way.

Richard Tutt, mitigating, said that Webber deserves credit for his early guilty plea and that he had no criminal convictions for the past five years.

Judge Jonathan Fuller said that eyewitnesses saw Webber looking ‘angry’ and ‘somewhat out of control’ during the incident but did recognise Webber played no part in the abuse given to Mrs Cullen by his wife.

He said: “What you did was very dangerous. I can’t ignore the effect it had on Mrs Cullen.

“Serious harm could have come about were circumstances different. The risk of harm to her is something you chose to ignore.”

Judge Fuller said that if she had lost her footing and fallen she could have gone under the car.

Twice during the sentencing hearing, Judge Fuller had to address Webber in the dock as he became 'increasingly restless'.

Judge Fuller sentenced Webber to six months in prison and disqualified him from driving for 15 months.

And at the end of the hearing Webber made the statement that he wish he had killed Mrs Cullen.