The family of a cyclist killed by a drink driver have been left ‘gutted’ after discovering the thug who hit him could be released from prison after serving less than four years inside.

Kingsley Gordon-Allen, 20, of Ashville Road in Leytonstone, was jailed in March for causing the death of 56-year-old Edward (George) Orrey, from Cornwall.

Mr Orrey died in Gainsborough Road, near Leytonstone Tube station, on the morning of February 9 2013 after Mr Gordon-Allen’s car hit his bike.

Emergency services were called at around 6.35am but Mr Orrey was pronounced dead at the scene.

Gordon-Allen drove off and abandoned the vehicle which was later found in Bushwood, Leytonstone.

He was sentenced to eight years inside.

However, three years were added to the sentence to run consecutively after he brutally attacked a 50-year-old man whilst out on bail on New Year’s Day.

Despite the total of eleven years handed to him, the family of Mr Orrey said thet have been told he has been given a release date of January 2018.

Elaine Orrey, 54, said: “We had a new family liaison officer and she told me that he will be out in four years whether he behaves or not, and if we don’t object he will be out in three-and-a-half.

“He could start coming out on licence in 24 months.

“I’m absolutely gutted.

“We were led to believe that if he gets over ten years he will serve a minimum of two thirds of that time.

“They don’t give a damn about the people left behind, the victims. We have been through all this for nothing.

“In court the police took us outside to speak to us in the street because there was no space in the court. The date was moved the first time and then the judge tried to throw it out of court because he was taken to the wrong court and we had come down from Cornwall.

“My husband worked hard his entire life. He was doing a job to support his family.

“I have no faith in the so-called justice system. I had heard stories before but never in my life did I imagine we would be treated like this.”

Frankie Orrey, 34, has called for changes to the justice system.

She said: “It is like my dad meant nothing. If he comes out of prison in 2018 he will still be young, he will have a life ahead of him and probably new qualifications.

“He will have served his time in a young offenders’ institute, not even a real prison. We have been treated like the criminals.

“Kingsley Gordon Allen has never shown any remorse for what he did.”

The family also told The Guardian that they were verbally abused by supporters of Gordon-Allen at his sentencing in Wood Green.

Mr Orrey’s youngest daughter Tiffany, 24, told him she was pregnant with her first child just two days before he was killed.

She described the sentence and release date as ‘completely disgusting’.

The probation service has been asked to confirm the release date.