A FATHER has been jailed after he crashed his motorcycle while 'drunk', uninsured and disqualified from driving.

Kenneth Ian Dyson, 28, sustained such serious injuries that he had to be pushed into court in a wheelchair to face charges on Friday (December 28).

It emerged that he had severed a major artery in his leg and suffered substantial nerve damage in one arm when he came off his Yamaha bike on Church Road, Northwich, on June 8 this year.

He was given a 14-week prison sentence and was disqualified from driving for five years and eight weeks.

Prosecuting at Chester Magistrates Court, Kate Wilson said Dyson had a string of previous convictions for similar matters.

He had issues with drink and drugs and had failed to comply with conditions of a previous post-sentence supervision order.

It had taken police months to bring charges as they had been unable to locate him after he was discharged from a lengthy hospital stay.

“His family were not helpful in providing contact details,” Miss Wilson added.

It also did not help that Dyson gave his name as ‘Griffin’, which is another name he goes by.

He was eventually found and later pleaded guilty to drink-driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

Hunter Gray, defending, said his client’s injuries were so serious that six months after the crash he was still struggling physically.

He’d undergone operations to transplant tissue from one leg to the other and was still waiting to have surgery on both knees.

“It has had a profound impact on him,” Mr Gray said. “He knows it is his own conduct that has left him with these injuries.”

Dyson, of Station Road, Winsford, had stopped drinking and had regular contact with his son.

“He realises he put that relationship at risk through his own actions,” Mr Gray added.

Sentencing, District Judge Nicholas Sanders told Dyson that only immediate custody was appropriate.

“I’m saddened to see you in such a state although it’s entirely of your own making,” he said. “You shouldn’t have been riding a motorbike and you shouldn’t have been riding it while drunk.”

Dyson will have to spend eight weeks in custody and the remainder on licence. He was also ordered to pay a £115 victim surcharge.