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This is the moment an ex-Aston Villa player launched a violent road rage attack on a student nurse.

Riccardo Calder kicked, punched and hurled a shoe at the 24-year-old victim in the car park of a Birmingham pub on May 6.

The 22-year-old repeatedly punched the woman through her open car window after she collided with his Mercedes.

She pleaded with him to stop during the prolonged road rage attack, which left the victim fearing she had bleeding on the brain. Watch the shocking video above.

The mother-of-one also suffered two black eyes, cuts, bruises and a fractured thumb.

She later suffered from flashbacks.

Calder, of Denholme Grove, Kings Heath, was found guilty of assault following a trial and jailed for nine months on December 12.

He was also banned from having any contact with the woman for five years.

Now, CCTV footage above has been released showing how the horrific attack unfolded outside the Kings Heath pub.

The victim had been out with a friend at Bamboo club in Kings Heath and had intended to get a taxi home and pick her car up afterwards.

But then she bumped into Calder, whom she had known for a year after being introduced by his sister.

He offered to give her a lift in his Mercedes, but there came a point when the pair were in separate cars and she collided with the rear of his vehicle.

The victim took the view that, because they knew each other and she was insured, they could sort it out later.

He then flashed her to pull over in the pub car park.

CCTV captures from the moment the pair park up in parallel bays. Calder then examines the rear of his car while walking towards her.

He is seen punching her through her open car window after which she desperately reverses to get away.

In a panic, she tries to drive off but collides with his "treasured" Mercedes for a second time.

Calder attempts to open her passenger door and the shaken woman reverses again - narrowly missing another parked car.

She parks and he runs over to her, punching her in the face repeatedly through the window.

He yanks opens her car door and kicks her twice through the opening.

The former Villa player then grabs a shoe from inside her vehicle and attacks her with it while trying to drag her out onto the floor.

The victim said she was “utterly disgusted” by the actions of Calder and later sent messages to a mutual friend asking for £5,000 to not go to the police.

The messages read: "I do know that he's going to have a good life ahead of him and do know this was a mistake. But what he's done is still out of order and he can't get away with it."

Calder rang the police alleging a woman was trying to get compensation out of him by falsely claiming he had attacked her

The footballer played for the Villa Academy and been a substitute for the first team.

Mark Phillips, prosecuting at Birmingham Crown Court said: “There is no suggestion there was any romantic attachment between the two.

"Simply they were friends who went out clubbing together from time to time."

In passing sentence, Judge Wall said: "I have no doubt that telephone call was made so you could get your defence in.

“I accept you are a young man of previous good character who had before him a promising life as a professional footballer.

"You did not do this all in one piece. On more than one occasion you walked away and you had the opportunity to leave.

"You were an angry man attacking a defenceless woman, alone inside her car.

"Throughout the case you have shown no regard for her at all.”

Abdul Iqbal QC, for Calder, said he had also played for England at under-17 level and had been playing for Inverness Caledonian Thistle in Scotland at the time of the incident.

But, after the attack, his contract was terminated by the club.

Mr Iqbal said at the time of the incident he had not been earning large amounts and the Mercedes was his first possession and his “treasure”.

Mr Iqbal claimed the victim tried to drive off after the first collision and said Calder “lost his temper.”

He also said that afterwards the woman had phoned up an associate of Calder’s and had demanded £5,000 to “buy his silence” or she would go to the police.