http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/30/nrage30.xml
is worth repeating here. I don't recall it being mentioned before,
but perhaps it was. We are often told about the poor, oppressed,
innocent, motorist hounded by petty officials.
The second article is an update, the man has been sentenced to six
months in prison (whatever that actually means).
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Director ran down constable who gave him parking ticket
(Filed: 30/04/2005)
A company director ran down a policeman outside a primary school for
putting a parking ticket on his car.
Schoolchildren watched as Paul Hughes, 40, accelerated his Land
Rover Discovery into Special Constable Andreas Hagemann, 31.
Constable Hagemann was knocked to the ground and forced to roll out
of the way as Hughes bore down on him.
Looking down from the driver's window Hughes grinned as the
terrified officer lay on the ground.
The incident happened on the school run as Hughes, the owner of a
transport and storage firm, was picking up his nine-year-old son
Curtis in Tynemouth, North Tyneside.
Hughes pleaded guilty at North Tyneside magistrates' court to
dangerous driving and was warned that he could be sent to jail.
Kevin Wardlaw, prosecuting, said: "At around 3.50pm on Nov 26 Mr
Hughes was seen parked on the yellow zig-zag lines by the school
gates. Constable Hagemann warned Mr Hughes he was causing an
obstruction and asked him to move on.
But Mr Hughes pulled into Percy Park Road and stopped in the middle
of the road causing a tailback.
"The constable approached the car again and asked Hughes to pull
into a nearby street so he could talk to him. The driver was enraged
and shouted that he was not causing an obstruction. He pulled into a
nearby road and Mr Hagemann began to issue a fixed penalty ticket
for causing an obstruction."
As Constable Hagemann walked to the front of the car to write down
the registration number, Hughes pulled the handbrake off and rammed
the officer.
Mr Wardlaw added: "Mr Hagemann heard the vehicle engine begin to rev
and looked up to see Hughes with an expression of rage on his face
staring straight at him. The car then moved forward towards the
officer and struck him on the legs. He fell forward and was forced
to roll out of the way to avoid the wheels of the car.
"Hughes shrugged his shoulders and grinned sarcastically. He never
asked how the officer was or expressed any remorse."
Hughes, 40, of Bray Close, Wallsend, North Tyneside, who owns North
East Express Transport, was given an interim driving
disqualification until his next appearance on May 16.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15566959&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=jailed-for-belt-rage-name_page.html
is the update to this story.
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28 May 2005
JAILED FOR BELT RAGE
AN enraged businessman who knocked over a policeman trying to book
him for not wearing a seat belt was jailed for six months yesterday.
Haulage firm boss Paul Hughes, 40, just grinned at Special Constable
Andreas Hagemann as he lay on the ground after hitting him with his
Land Rover Discovery.
The PC had asked him to move after he blocked the road outside his
son's primary school, then tried to issue the fixed penalty ticket
for the seat belt.
North Tyneside magistrates refused to allow Hughes, of Wallsend, to
withdraw a guilty plea to dangerous driving, made at an earlier
hearing, or bail him for an appeal.
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