Victoria Yellop, pictured, 34, was handed a suspended sentence after hitting a motorcyclist and leaving him with life-changing injuries

A classical violinist, who once played for the Queen, left a motorcyclist with life-changing injuries in a cocaine-fuelled crash.

Disgraced musician Victoria Yellop had taken the Class A drug the night before she hit the man, who was left with cracked ribs, a fractured sternum and a broken femur.

The 34-year-old is already on a suspended sentence after staging a £25,000 fake burglary at a friend's house.

That sentence was not activated because the driving offence took place before she was given the punishment for the burglary.

After the smash she was found to be more than twice the drug-drive limit when she had a 'momentary lapse of concentration' during the crash on May 17.

She pulled her grey Mercedes into the path of a white Honda bike in Tonbridge, Kent, sending the motorcyclist flying through the air.

Yellop, who once performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, wept in the dock at Maidstone Magistrates' Court as listened to a victim impact statement.

Prosecutor Kumud Singh said the victim has been left physically and emotionally traumatised by the crash.

He will have to have a metal pole in his hip for the rest of his life and suffers from poor mobility, is constantly in pain, depressed, unable to work and in financial difficulties.

Former private school pupil Yellop admitted driving without due care and attention and drug driving, and was handed a four-month suspended prison sentence and a six-month curfew from 9pm until 7am.

She must pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £115, and was banned from driving for three years.

In July, she was handed a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting perverting the course of justice, theft and being concerned in the supply of a class A drug after staging a £25,000 fake burglary at a friend's house.

Yellop, left and right, a classical violinist who has performed for The Queen, had previously been handed a two-year suspended sentence in July for faking a £25,000 burglary

Yellop, pictured with Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke, left her victim 'physically and emotionally traumatised by the crash', the court heard

She had been housesitting for an actor friend when her 'violent and abusive' boyfriend, Mark James, pressured her to commit the crime.

They stole £25,000 of goods in a fake burglary including 80 pairs of shoes, more than 40 designer baseball caps, two Tag Heuer watches, a Rolex and an Armani watch.

Yellop reported the 'burglary' to police, stating she had returned from a night out to find the front door and window smashed.

But they were caught after neighbours spotted Yellop at the property as the stolen goods were loaded into a van.

Matthew Nickolls, defending, said the affair had destroyed his client's career when her sponsors saw media reports of the trial.

Yellop's previous sentence was not activated because her driving offence happened before the court case for her burglary offence

He said she was distraught by what had happened and had not used cocaine since the accident.

District judge Julia Moffatt said she could not activate the suspended sentence as the crash happened before she was sentenced for the recent offence.

The judge said: 'With you I have someone who, through no fault of their own, has suffered quite considerably and with the victim I also have someone who, through no fault of his own, has suffered considerably too.'

During her appearance at Maidstone Crown Court in July this year, where she admitted faking the burglary, the court heard how £25,000-worth of items were stolen from Mr Taylor's home, including 80 pairs of shoes, designer baseball caps, two Tag Heuer watches, a Rolex, Armani watch, champagne, two guitars and £3,000 in cash.

Yellop 'reported' the burglary to police, but police didn't believe her story and when they searched the home she shared with James in Tunbridge Wells they found many of the stolen items.

Cops also found a safe with bags of cocaine in it, but the court heard how James was 'coercive and controlling' and had bullied Yellop into agreeing to fake the burglary.

In her biography posted online, Yellop says she 'knew she wanted a life on stage' from the age of four when she was given a violin for her birthday.

She got an honours degree in Music from the renowned Trinity College of Music in London and went on to perform with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as well as playing in bands with Will Long, Vanessa Mae and Gloria Gaynor.

She said that in 2002 she was 'invited to play a violin solo for Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor as part of her Golden Jubilee Celebrations' in front of a crowd of 70,000 people before being asked again to play for the Queen at the Royal Windsor Tattoo.