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A jobless asylum seeker who's never taken a UK driving test left a woman for dead after hitting her with his swanky £27,000 BMW 640 sports saloon car.

Questions were being asked how Libyan Mokhtar Bennagi, 26, could afford the fuel-guzzling luxury limo when he is registered as unemployed and claiming asylum to stay in the UK.

He's beginning an 18-month jail sentence after Oxford Crown Court heard his car hurled pensioner Angela Balkwill, 65, into the air.

Bennagi sped away, leaving her screaming in agony in the road with life-changing injuries.

Angela bounced like a rag doll off the windscreen and was flung more than 30ft, landing with a sickening thud in front of Bennagi's gleaming car.

A judge said the hit-and-run smash in Headington, Oxford, had a 'devastating' impact on Angela - she suffered injuries to her spleen and liver, as well as a shattered pelvis and leg fractures.

The asylum seeker 'stopped momentarily' to glance at 65-year-old pensioner as she lay groaning in the road.

Then he 'zoomed off' and casually parked the BMW in a nearby street before heading home to London Road, Headington.

Ian Beeby, his defence barrister, told Oxford Crown Court that Bennagi, who has a previous conviction for speeding on a motorway, had not taken a driving test since arriving in Britain in 2011.

The Libyan's 'lack of driving experience' in the UK contributed to the tragedy, which left him 'shocked', the barrister claimed.

Mr Beeby said Bennagi was remorseful, adding, "There is no hard evidence of the speed being so excessive as to amount to 40mph in a 20mph zone. This is out of character.

"This is not, in my submission, an aggressive, youthful, testosterone-fuelled collision.

"This is a collision that has been fuelled by a lack of driving skills and having a slightly heavy right foot and powerful car."

But Judge Zoe Smith condemned the asylum seeker for his appalling actions.

As well as jailing him, she banned him from the roads for two years and nine months and said he must pay £550 costs and a victim surcharge after he admitted dangerous driving .

The OAP felt she was safe crossing Old Road, Headington, where there's a 20mph speed limt, after spotting his car 'some distance away at traffic lights on August 8th last year, prosecutor Alexandra Bull said.

Bennagi was in a right-turn only lane but realised he was in the wrong position, accelerating ahead at the lights in an attempt to overtake another vehicle on the nearside.

A witness at a nearby bus stop heard 'heavy revving' before watching in horror as Bennagi raced towards his victim at about 40mph, the court was told.

Bennagi got into the left lane but then swiftly moved into the opposite carriageway as he approached Angela, who had only had time to walk across part of the street.

His BMW crunched into her, but he 'stopped momentarily before zooming off' as she lay injured in the road.

Police said Bennagi would have been able to see 216.6m - almost 250 yards - ahead of him from the traffic lights on the clear and dry day.

He was arrested after calling police later to confess.