A road rage driver has been convicted after he was filmed screaming abuse at a woman motorist when she sounded her horn at him for cutting her up.
How it Happened
Peter Abbott got out of his car and approached frightened Samantha Isaacs‘ vehicle following the minor incident outside a fuel station.
The terrified female motorists who is in her late 50s, runs a TV production company and has worked with Prince William and Alan Titchmarsh, locked her doors and began filming irate Abbott.
The 60-year-old banged on her windscreen with his fists before unleashing the foul-mouthed tirade.
His Rant
He shouted at her ‘can you f***ing see me you f***ing tart?’ He then called her a ‘s**g’ and a ‘wh***’ and put his head up against the windscreen.
A male motorist went to intervene and called Abbott a bully. The Good Samaritan told him ‘what is wrong with you, it’s a woman on her own’ to which Abbott replied ‘she’s a f***ing bloody annoying woman’.
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The footage was shown at Poole Magistrates’ Court in Dorset where Abbott went on trial for using threatening words or behaviour to cause alarm, distress or fear of violence.
He denied the offence, saying ‘it’s not against the law to be angry’ but was found guilty of the offence.
What Will Happen Next?
Sentencing was adjourned for reports but a district judge warned Abbott that he may go to jail as it was the ‘most serious’ of this type of offence.
