Lycra-clad ‘angriest bike owner’ caged for brand new tirade on mum after Tesco outburst
Peter Abbott, 62, was jailed after screaming abuse at a woman with a newborn baby on Bournemouth beach – it comes after an earlier foul-mouthed rant at a woman in Tesco car park
A road rage cyclist who was caught on camera screaming vile abuse at a female driver has been locked up after striking again. Peter Abbott unleashed another foul-mouthed rant at a woman with her newborn baby.
He was pedalling along a seaside promenade when he became embroiled in a furious row with a woman who was out with her child and dog. Abbott, 62, lashed out at the woman’s unleashed pet, causing her to cry out at him.
He dismounted his bike and began unleashing a torrent of abuse at her before turning on a bystander who attempted to defuse the situation. Abbott was then captured on film telling a member of the public to “shut the f*** up or I’ll kick you up the arse.”
He also goaded another man into a scrap and branded him a “weed”. Abbott, dressed head-to-toe in lycra, displayed “pure rage” during the appalling incident at Alum Chine beach in Bournemouth, Dorset, on December 3, 2024, magistrates were told.
At the time he was already serving a suspended jail term for another notorious road rage attack on a woman in a Tesco car park back in August 2023. Abbott had swerved out in front of Samantha Isaac’s vehicle, causing her to sound her horn, reports the Mirror.
He clambered out and was filmed pounding on the windscreen with his fists whilst branding Mrs Isaac a “f****** tart” as well as a “b****” and a “w****”. He received his sentence in May 2024 when he avoided custody and was ordered to complete an anger management programme.
The seaside fracas meant Abbott had violated his suspended sentence and he was banged up by magistrates in Poole for six weeks. District Judge Orla Austin expressed her frustration, stating: “This is another episode of rage taken out on the public. I’d like to know why he feels entitled to tell members of the public to shut the f*** up and shout and enrage at them.”
Abbott had been previously banned from driving due to a road rage incident, which led him to be cycling along the promenade when he encountered the woman.
Prosecutor Laura Lohk detailed the incident, saying: “The defendant was cycling behind her before going straight into the victim’s dog. He then got off his bike and started shouting and swearing at the victim initially and then started shouting at everyone around. A member of the public saw what was happening in front of her and started recording.”
In the first video clip, Abbott can be heard yelling “Shut the f*** up or I’ll kick you up the arse… F*** off… p****.”
He then attempted to cycle away, only to dismount his bike again and shout at a couple who had also stopped to help. In the second clip, he can be heard saying: “There was a woman with about five dogs running all over the place.”
When a man tries to intervene, Abbott starts shouting: “I’m not f****** finished!” The man tells him he should look where he’s going on his bike, prompting Abbott to scream: “Shut the f*** up you p****, if you want a kick up the arse you’re going the right way about it… what you going to do about it you weed.”
Ms Lohk continued: “The complainant says the defendant was very aggressive, shouting and swearing. She said the dog wasn’t running around, the dog was under her control and is well behaved. She said ‘I was terrified, the cyclist was so aggressive, he wasn’t forming sentences that made sense. It just seemed like pure rage’.”
Dorset Police launched an appeal featuring a photograph of the furious cyclist, leading to Abbott’s arrest several weeks afterwards.
Katherine Toth, representing the defendant, stated: “He was not cycling fast along the promenade, because he knows children and other pedestrians can veer suddenly. There were four or five dogs off the lead, chasing each other around and out of control.
“The dog of the complainant ran in front of his front wheel, because he had disc brakes he managed to stop without making contact. He carried on cycling but the complainant shouted something at him. He assumed she was the owner and decided to turn around to tell her the dog should be on a lead. The complainant wasn’t listening to him. He accepts he reacted to her but did not actually swear at the complainant, he only swore when approached by another member of the public he was intimidated by.
“He’s not trying to minimise his behaviour. He understands he should have just carried on cycling. He regrets his decision to confront her and any other member of the public. He clearly understands what he did was wrong.
“He was struggling with loneliness and isolation and using cycling and yoga to cope with his loneliness. He has made a change, he’s trying to manage his anger better.”
Abbott admitted to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour to cause fear, distress or alarm. The offence cannot be punished by imprisonment but by committing the crime Abbott had violated his suspended sentence for the previous road rage incident.
Ms Toth stated that Abbott had completed an anger management course as part of his sentence and had not been in trouble since this beach incident, which was over a year ago.
She added: “It would be unjust to activate. It’s been over a year since the offence, there is a realistic prospect of rehabilitation.”
However, Judge Austin disagreed and said Abbott can’t go around getting angry with the public. Abbott, a self-employed translator from Bournemouth, was sent to prison for six weeks and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs.
