An Oxford University hopeful has released a hospital bed image in protest against the sentence given to a drink driver who left him for dead.

Luke Mason, 18, released the picture of himself in intensive care to show how close he came to death after being knocked down along with a friend by Hadi Hamid, 40.

Luke was left in a coma and with life-changing injuries after Hadi Hamid ploughed into him and Matthew Lockwood while he was banned from the roads and over the alcohol limit.

Hamid was jailed for four years after he admitted a charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving - which has a maximum sentence of five years - but will serve just half, less the time he has spent on remand since the horror in October last year.