A court has heard how a teenager drove into another male outside a West Yorkshire nightclub following a brief fight in the street outside.

Layton Oliver, of Malham Road, Rastrick, Brighouse, was caught on CCTV driving through barriers and cones to hit his victim with the car’s wheels going over him and coming close to his head.

He has now “come within a whisker” of an immediate jail term but left court with a 21-month sentence suspended for two years and a three-year driving ban.

The victim was left with multiple fractures including a broken nose, two broken eye sockets, and a permanent lump on his right cheek.

Prosecutor Ayman Khokhar said: “There was no attempt by the defendant to slow down or avoid hitting the complainant. The Crown say it was a deliberate attempt to run [him] over.”

The court heard that Oliver, now 18 but who was just 17 at the time of the incident on August 5 last year, was in Halifax town centre with others at 4.30am when an altercation occurred outside Maggie’s nightclub.

The eventual victim threw a punch at one of four males causing Oliver to step in and separate them. What was described as “a brief period of reconciliation” took place but as the nightclub was closing Oliver punched the victim to the head.

Security staff intervened prompting Oliver and his friends to go outside. Shortly afterwards the victim ran out, tried to punch Oliver again, and then ran off.

Oliver could be seen on CCTV, which was played in court, getting into a Mercedes car on the opposite side of the road with three others. He then drove “quickly” at the victim, who threw a cone, and into him. He was “caught” by the car and fell to the ground.

Mr Khokhar said that despite the seriousness of his injuries the victim made a full recovery.

Oliver was interviewed twice by police and denied intending to injure the victim. He later pleaded guilty to a charge of causing injury by dangerous driving.

Oliver also pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening to damage or destroy property relating to an incident with a former partner where he threatened to blow up her grandmother’s house if she did not answer his calls.

In an interview with the police, he admitted making the threat but said he had not intended to carry it out.

The court heard the father-of-one was previously of good character.

Mitigating, David McGonigal said Olivier was initially the peacemaker during the fight in the nightclub, and then the victim tried to assault him.

He said Oliver accepted he “behaved wrongly by getting into his car and driving in the manner that he did”.

He added: “He always accepted he was the driver of the car, and the issue has always been what he intended to do with the car.”

He said Oliver had “a low level of maturity” that would have affected his behaviour at the time.

Sentencing Oliver, Mr Recorder Bryan Cox said he had taken account of Oliver’s age, his guilty pleas, and the fact that he was of previous good character when considering his sentence.

He said he would benefit from therapeutic help and ordered him to participate in a 90-day alcohol-monitoring programme, carry out 250 hours of unpaid work, and undertake 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

He must also observe an 8pm to 6am curfew for the next six months.

Recorder Cox said the driving incident was “especially serious” and that “the consequences could have been devastating both for you and more importantly for the [victim].

“You have come within a whisker of an immediate custodial sentence.

“If you do not take advantage of this opportunity, you will let down your child, your family, and yourself.”