Eerie footage shows a soldier downing five pints and three Jagermeisters minutes before he knocked down and killed a cyclist in his car.
Royal Welsh Guard Nicholas Cutmore, 24, was jailed for six years after running over grandfather-of-nine David Gunson, 65, three days before Christmas in 2016.
Mr Gunson was cycling to work to cover for a sick colleague while Cutmore began a drinking spree at his home before heading to the Ram pub in Tidworth, Wiltshire.
Disturbing CCTV shows Cutmore casually draining five pints of Fosters and three Jagerbombs before the pair fatally crossed paths.
Royal Welsh Guard Nicholas Cutmore, 24, was jailed for six years after running over grandfather-of-nine David Gunson, 65, three days before Christmas in 2016
He could barely stand when he drove his Suzuki Swift out of the pub, where he can be seen hanging around a pool table with his friends on December 22.
Minutes later the Tidworth-based soldier mowed down Mr Gunson, a guard for South West Trains, on the A338 en route to Salisbury.
Cutmore fled the scene and Mr Gunson died in hospital the next day.
He was convicted of causing death by careless driving after a trial at Salisbury Crown Court, jailed for six years and banned from driving for nine years.
Mr Gunson’s devastated family said they had wanted Curmore to face a more serious charge and wrote to the Attorney General asking to appeal to extend his sentence.
As well as calling for tougher penalties for offenders, they criticised the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for Cutmore’s ability to drive out of the Tidworth barracks drunk.
‘If he’d had too much to drink and taken a weapon other than a car and killed somebody I’m pretty sure it would be manslaughter, so why is it not the same with a car?’ his son Glen Simpson told the BBC.
‘He made a conscious decision to get in his car that night knowing he had been drinking and made a conscious decision to leave my dad after he hit him’.
Mr Gunson (above) was cycling to work to cover for a sick colleague when he was knocked down
The former soldier was almost twice the legal drink drive limit at the time and could barely stand when he had driven to the pub, Salisbury Crown Court heard.
MoD guidelines state that guards can call the police if they suspect anyone leaving the base is unfit to drive.
Mr Simpson said the family wanted ‘an official apology and condolence from the army’.
A MoD spokesman told the BBC: ‘The Army co-operated fully with the Wiltshire police during the course of their investigation’.