A VICTIM of the devastating 2005 crash that claimed the lives of three schoolboys and a trainee teacher has been jailed for attacking his girlfriend.

Lawyers for Anton Dublin, whose mum caused the Eastern Bypass smash that claimed his friends' lives, told Oxford Crown Court that the brain injuries he suffered in the crash left him suffering ‘very short outbursts of anger’.

The accident also meant he had problems with his memory and he could not remember assaulting his then-girlfriend in November and December last year, the court heard.

Sentencing the 29-year-old to five months’ imprisonment for common assault, Judge Michael Gledhill QC said: “I appreciate that you had this dreadful accident when you were much younger. You suffered a brain injury and the difficulties that followed were dreadful.”

But he said that ‘many people’ had similar conditions and did not go around beating up women.

The judge added: “[This was] absolutely disgraceful behaviour and you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.”

The court heard Dublin was in a short relationship with his victim when he twice attacked her, on one occasion leaving a long scratch on her leg. He threatened to kill her and made disparaging remarks about the woman’s son.

He had previously shown her two air guns, leaving her in even greater fear after the assaults.

In a victim personal statement read to the court, the woman said she’d had to move away from Oxford and had been housed in hotels then in ‘squalid’ digs with an ‘infested’ bed. She was ‘extremely scared of Dublin and the repercussions from himself and his friends’.

Dublin, of Cranbrook Drive, Kennington, had been due to stand trial on allegations of assault and possession of air weapons with intent.

But when he pleaded guilty to two counts of assault by beating and signed a waiver to hand the guns over to the police, prosecutors said they would not fight a trial on the firearms offences.

Mitigating, Gordanna Austin said her client had been in prison on remand for 10 months – the equivalent of a 20 month sentence.

At 13 he was in the back of his mum’s Citroen Xsara when she lost control of the car and crashed into oncoming traffic. There were seven boys in the car, with two in the boot, after a trip for Anton’s birthday. Only one was wearing a seatbelt.

Three of the boys died, as well as a 21-year-old Oxford Brookes University student and trainee teacher who was in a car struck by Angela Dublin’s Citroen.

Anton Dublin later put in a claim against his mum for more than £300,000, with lawyers saying he needed intensive rehabilitation in a brain injury clinic.

A restraining order now bans Dublin from contacting his ex for five years.