#nottingham

#nottingham

CCTV footage shows the moment a drink-driver crashed his car into a Nottingham city landmark. Melvin Mugambe, 20, swerved into the corner of the Guildhall building on 4 December at 4am. Nobody was injured in the crash. Significant damage was caused to the car. No structural damage was caused to the Grade II-listed building. After being checked over by paramedics, he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving when a breathalyser test recorded 59 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, way over the legal limit.

No one was looking for him or the other dozen children who congregated on the market square. Most of them had absconded from care, some were dodging school. A few, like Craig's mate Mikey, just didn't bother going home. The youngest runaway, Mark, claimed he'd been missing from foster care for months and had spent his 12th birthday on the run.

It was commissioned by the Artistic Director of Nottingham Playhouse, Adam Penford, after Penford heard the story of how, in 2011 in Nottingham, a teenager (Dunne) threw a punch that resulted in the unintended death of a young man, James Hodgkinson. Punch is dedicated to James, and all victims of one-punch, a term for legal cases where a single punch has unforeseen fatal consequences and the perpetrator is convicted of manslaughter.