A driver who shouted and swore at a lone female motorist has avoided being sent to prison – but has been ordered to complete an anger management course as part of his sentence.
Peter Abbott, 60, was convicted of using threatening abusive or insulting words or behaviour against Samantha Isaacs during the incident outside a Tesco petrol station in Bournemouth, Dorset, on 25 August last year.
After the trial at Poole Magistrates’ Court, the judge sentenced him to a 12-week prison sentence suspended for 18 months and disqualified him from driving for 18 months.
He was also ordered to carry out 20 rehabilitation days, to complete an anger management course and pay £300 compensation to Ms Isaacs and £300 court costs.
Sentencing Abbott, District Judge Orla Austin said: “Ms Isaacs was a lone female in her car, this was a sustained incident, your level of anger and aggression was extremely high, the language you used was extremely offensive and you put her in significant fear with an ongoing effect on her life.
“Bystanders intervened, such was the level of your aggression.”
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