Jamaican International and and ex- English Premier League footballer Marlon King who caused a pile-up while eating ice cream at the wheel has been jailed for 18 months for dangerous driving.

Former Watford and Wigan striker Marlon King was driving a Porsche on the A46 near Newark in Nottinghamshire when the crash happened in April last year.

The three-car pile-up left a 35-year-old man with a fractured elbow.

King, 34, who was a Birmingham City player at the time of the crash, was also jailed in 2009 for sexual assault.

'Aggressive and arrogant'

The footballer, of Torksey, Lincolnshire, served 18 months for groping a woman and then breaking her nose in a London club.

Sentencing King at Nottingham Crown Court, Recorder Paul Mann QC said: "I do not regard your case as merely impulsive or silly behaviour. It was aggressive. It was arrogant."

The judge also handed King a three-year driving ban.

The Jamaican international has a number of other previous convictions including for dishonesty, drinking and driving and other motoring offences, including a prison sentence for handling a stolen car, while playing for Gillingham in 2002.

King, whose previous clubs include Sheffield United, Nottingham Forest, Coventry City, Hull City, Leeds United and Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving at an earlier hearing at Nottingham Crown Court.