A road rage driver who was filmed screaming abuse at a female motorist has been jailed after launching another foul-mouth tirade at a woman.
Peter Abbott, 62, went viral last year when he was filmed shrieking at a woman in a Tesco’s car park after she beeped at him for pulling out in front of her.
He received a suspended prison sentence for the shocking outburst, which took place in August 2023.
Now Abbott has been jailed after he got into an angry confrontation with a woman walking with her newborn baby and her dog while he was cycling along a beach promenade.
Abbott hit the woman’s pet, which was off its lead, prompting her to shout out at him.
He got off his bike and started hurling abuse at her and then at passersby who tried to calm him down.
He was caught on camera telling a member of the public to ‘shut the f..k up or I’ll kick you up the arse.’
He also challenged another man to a fight and called him a ‘weed’.
Abbott, who was clad in lycra at the time, exhibited ‘pure rage’ during the shocking incident at Alum Chine beach in Bournemouth, Dorset, on December 3 2024.
At the time he was still serving the suspended prison sentence for his viral outburst against the woman in the Tesco car park.
During the first incident, he was filmed banging on the windscreen with his fists on motorist Samantha Isaac’s car, calling her a ‘f…ing tart’ as well as a ‘bitch’ and a ‘whore’.
He was sentenced in May 2024 when he was let off prison and told to take an anger management course.
The beach incident meant Abbott was in breach of his suspended sentence and he was jailed by magistrates in Poole for six weeks.
District Judge Orla Austin said: ‘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 banned from driving for the road rage incident and so was riding a bike along the prom when he encountered the woman.
Laura Lohk, prosecuting, said: ‘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 screaming ‘Shut the f*** up or I’ll kick you up the arse… F*** off… p…k.’
He then went to cycle away only to get off 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 the man tries to speak, Abbott starts shouting: ‘I’m not f***ing 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 added: ‘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 issued an appeal with an image of the angry cyclist and Abbott was arrested a few weeks later.
Katherine Toth, defending, said: ‘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 pleaded guilty to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour to cause fear, distress or alarm.
The offence cannot be dealt with by imprisonment but by committing the crime Abbott had breached his suspended sentence for the previous road rage incident.
Ms Toth said 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.’
But Judge Austin disagreed and said Abbott can’t go around getting angry with the public.
She said: ‘It was an extreme example of rage which had a significant impact on the victim, that’s why a suspended sentence was imposed, on the terms of you not committing any further offending.’
She told him’ ‘While I understand in relation to rehabilitation you have done well, what’s happened here in December 2024, some months after your suspended sentence.
‘You’re disqualified from driving, you’re now cycling and at the promenade you come into contact with members of the public.
‘There were children present – the complainant who was walking her newborn baby with her dog and another lady filming.
‘You were very angry, shouting ‘shut the f*** up’. You’re shouting and swearing, causing people considerable concern in terms of whether they were going to be assaulted.
‘I accept you have completed anger management and I also accept the new offence could not attract a custodial sentence, nonetheless given the time of that episode and the degree of similarity I do activate the suspended sentence.
‘It is very regrettable to arrive in this position, but here we are. I will not have you abusing and frightening members of the public in this way.’
Abbott, a self-employed translator from Bournemouth, was sent to prison for six weeks and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs.
