Hussain is only 21 but he already has an appalling record on the roads of Rochdale, which includes three hit-and-run smashes.
He tried to escape a prison term for his latest offences by claiming he was under pressure from the media because of his notoriety.
However, magistrates decided he should be jailed after he admitted four counts of driving while disqualified and without insurance.
Hussain, of Stamford Street, Rochdale, was just 16 years old when he committed his first hit-and-run in 2002 when he knocked down five-year-old Daniel Hennessy, leaving the youngster in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
He escaped a jail sentence but was given a two-month driving ban and ordered to pay Daniel's family £2,555 compensation, which he was later told he did not have to pay because of a legal technicality.
Just five months later he was jailed for 18 months after running over lollipop lady Audrey Chadwick while disqualified and leaving her lying injured in the street.
And last year he was given a four-month suspended sentence after his third hit-and-run smash in the town.
Intense
In his latest court appearance, prosecutor Kay Raewood said Hussain was a `habitual offender' who had `no regard for any court order'.
She added that he was `a menace and a danger to the general public' and urged the magistrates to act accordingly.
Defending Hussain, Richard Birtwistle, said that intense media coverage had made his client's life difficult.
He pointed to guidance from the Home Secretary that courts should only consider custodial sentences for the most dangerous and persistent offenders and added that Hussain did not fit this bill.
However, magistrates decided he should serve time for the offences. He was jailed for nine months - one month for each driving offence and an extra month for possession of a CS gas canister plus the four month suspended sentence imposed last year.
Daniel Hennessy's grandfather, Chris, 65, who was at court, branded the sentence a `complete joke'.
He said: "Hussain will end up killing someone in the end - he can't help himself.
"He will be out in four months to do the same thing again - and he will."
Since the incident Daniel and his mother have moved to Dublin and Mr Hennessy said he was dreading breaking the news to them. He said: "They will be gutted but not surprised. In fact they will probably laugh because the sentence is so short.
"This should have been dealt with at Manchester Crown Court and he should have got a minimum sentence of five years. The man is ignorant and oblivious to anyone apart from himself." Tweet
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9 years wouldnt have been long enough. Way too soft AGAIN
And yet more contempt for law and order? What a sorry state our law is in ? to allow people like this scum to laugh in the face of the law.No wonder we are facing Anarchy? "THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG"
Five years might teach him how to drive. After his release he might kill himself in a car without injuring anyone else.
The pathetically lenient sentence this young man has received shows how out of touch the magistrates are.
3 hit and runs and 9 months in jail? Magistrates hang your heads in shame, you know as well as the rest of the public do he will be out in around 4 months time to get back into a car and possibly kill someone this time.
I wonder what the sentence would have been, if he ran over a judge's daughter or son. I can't believe the courts are so out of touch with the common people.
My god, it's awful
People like him should be removed from our society forever.
Just another reminder that we don't have justice in this country - only a legal system. Like the guy jailed for two years yesterday for throwing a pensioner to the ground outside a supermarket and breaking his ribs - he died two weeks later in hospital. Yob culture - how will we ever solve it with these pathetic sentences.
should have got 10 years
P*A*T*H*E*T*I*C
For his own safety this idiot should be behind bars for a few years! Surely the judge in this case feels ashamed at such a silly sentencing?
This case just helps to secure the mindset for the youth of today. Why should they bother having driving lessons, let alone taking their test or, heaven forbid, getting & paying for insurance. When they don't really need any of it. Afterall they can seriously injure a few people out there on the road before they even get 'done' for it.
Even then, when they get 'prosecuted' without any other programme taught or learned from the experience they will go back out on the road thinking it is their right to drive without thought for others or the propor training.
Much as it pains me to back american policy of any kind, showing these people videos of the aftermath & intensive re-training programmes can work, why aren't they in place over here?