A MOTHER left with life-changing injuries by a Bolton drink-driver said it "hurt" to hear he was allowed to forego a curfew to live it up on a stag do abroad.

Hayley Jones, aged 32, was one of two passengers injured when Jon Morton's car crashed through a barrier on the M61 near the East Lancs Road in Worsley.

Ms Jones, of Warrington, was left unable to walk following the alcohol-fuelled crash, for which Morton was banned from driving for three years and received a community order with an electronically-monitored 7pm to 7am curfew.

Just weeks later Morton, of Neasden Grove, Deane, successfully applied to Bolton Magistrates' Court to temporarily suspend the curfew so he could attend a pre-booked lads' holiday in Portugal that turned out to be a bachelor party break.

Ms Jones said it felt like Morton — who posted photographs of his holiday on Facebook — was "rubbing it in".

Speaking on ITV show Good Morning Britain, Ms Jones said: "To see someone go on holiday hurts.

"He looked quite cocky about it as well on his pictures, he seemed not to care at all."

Ms Jones said she "can't be a mum" to her children having been left unable to walk and has also suffered a blood clot on her lung.

She said: "It's not fair. We are basically doing a sentence because we are going to suffer until we die when he can just walk across the street and do as he pleases.

"It needs to be a lot tougher because it's not fair on us and the victims."

The crash left Ms Jones' friend Amy Baxter, aged 27, with multiple broken bones and needing life-saving surgery to remove part of her skull to relieve brain swelling.

Ms Baxter remains at Salford Royal Hospital in Eccles.

She has not seen her two children since the accident.

Jake Berry, who as the Conservative member for Rossendale and Darwen is the Baxter family's local MP , called it an "outrage of public decency".

He is now campaigning for a change in the law to introduce a new offence of causing serious injury by drink-driving or careless driving.

He told the TV programme it was also time that the loophole was looked at that had allowed Morton to break from the overnight curfew.

He said: "If someone gets a tag as a sentence it literally beggars belief that that could be removed to enable them to go on holiday.

"The tag is often instead of custody and if they are in prison of course they wouldn't be let out because they had a family holiday."

Morton was sentenced in March after admitting drink-driving and driving without due care and attention in relation to the accident in August, 2014.