A fitness instructor described as "dangerous" by a judge "kept a child hostage" attacked police and ripped a Tazer off during a drug and drink fuelled rage.

Stewart Goodwin, from Basildon, rammed a moped driver off the road then trying to mow his victim down when he launched the attack.

Three months after trying to use his car as a weapon, the "dangerous" 33-year-old slashed his victim's chin, grabbed a child and barricaded himself into the room of a house in Folkestone, Kent.

It took multiple attempts for officers to subdue him in what was described as a "rampage" last may.

A total of four officers forced the door when "well-built" Goodwin shouted incoherently and repeatedly tried slashing PC Davis with a kitchen and flick-knife.

The brave officer parried his blows with a shield and then Tasered Goodwin to the floor, as his colleagues then tried rounding on the crazed knifeman.

But as he was on drink and drugs, Goodwin was able to strip off the Taser barbs before lunging into another assault, kicking and head-butting officers until he was finally restrained.

The woman suffered a deep 3 inch (8cm) cut to her chin, felt too weak to walk and bled profusely, she still suffers facial numbness and could be scarred for life, a court heard.

He told the hearing that in retrospect the evidence was "too hard to listen to".

But Judge Rupert Lowe told Goodwin using his car as a weapon took road rage "to a whole different level".

He added: "You drove into him using your car as a weapon impacting his moped twice, and on the second occasion knocking him off.

"He ran away, it appears you further pursued him in your car."

At Canterbury Crown Court Goodwin pleaded guilty to wounding with intent, actual bodily harm, child cruelty and four counts of assaulting an emergency worker at a previous hearing.

During his sentencing hearing on Friday where he was jailed for nine years, prosecutors told how Goodwin was released under police investigation three months before the attacks last May for using his car as a weapon on another victim.

In a fit of road rage, he drove his Vauxhall Insignia twice into the back of a moped, destroying the vehicle.

His victim fled to a group of nearby workmen when Goodwin accelerated towards them and smashed into a barrier after they jumped out of the way.