A driver who was filmed insulting a woman after she beeped at him is facing jail.
Peter Abbott got out of his car and approached the car of scared Samantha Isaacs after the minor incident outside a Tesco petrol station.
Ms Isaacs locked her doors and began filming 60-year-old Abbott banging his fists on the windscreen before unleashing a foul-mouthed tirade.
He shouted at her, “Can you fucking see me, damn pie?” then called her a “slug” and a “whore” and put his head against the windshield.
A male motorist intervened and called Abbott a bully, telling him, “What's wrong with you, she's a woman on her own!”
To which Abbott replied: 'She's a bloody nasty woman.'
The footage was shown at Poole Magistrates' Court in Dorset, where Abbott was on trial for using threatening words or behavior to cause alarm, distress or fear of violence.
He denied the offence, saying that 'it is not against the law to be angry', but was found guilty of the offence.
The sentencing was stayed due to reports, but a district judge warned Abbott he might go to prison. This was the 'most serious' of these types of offences.
Afterwards Mrs Isaacs, who is in her late 50s, said: 'He's a terrible man and a bully. I didn't want it to get to this point, I just don't want him to do it to anyone else.”
The road rage incident happened on August 25 last year when Ms Isaacs left the Tesco Extra petrol station in Bournemouth, Dorset, just before lunchtime.
Abbott, who was shopping in the main store, drove in front of her, causing her to slam on the brakes.
The mother-of-three had honked her horn, prompting Abbott to make rude gestures at her before stopping his car and getting out.
Ms Isaacs told the court: 'I had just left and a car came from the shopping area and completely cut me open to the point where I had to slam on the brakes so hard that all my stuff fell from the passenger seat onto the floor . .
'I beeped my horn, as if to say 'watch out'. He turned around in the car and started gesticulating, then he got out of the car and started yelling at me.
'He said what I thought I was doing and started hitting my car and calling me a lot of names, like f**king slags and whores. He pounded on the windshield and my door with both fists. I was scared, so I started filming it.”
She added: 'I didn't think he was going to kill me or anything, but this escalated and I wanted it on camera. I felt unsafe. I thought it would be okay, now that it's been so long, but it's still not that fun to watch (the video).”
After the first meeting, Abbott followed her briefly, prompting Ms. Isaacs to call the police.
District Judge Orla Austin asked Ms Isaacs what the long-term impact had been. She said: 'When I'm alone in the car I always keep the doors locked, I've made sure my dashcam works.'
The court heard Abbott was identified as the registered keeper of the Toyota involved in the road rage incident and was interviewed by police in October.
He claimed he was in fact the victim of road rage as Ms Isaacs had blown her horn several times, flashed her lights at him and made a rude gesture.
He told the court: 'The cause of this incident was the behavior of the witness. Despite what she said under oath in this court, she did not just blow her horn once, she blew her horn and flashed her lights multiple times, which I consider to be road rage.
'I believed there was enough room, so I withdrew. I looked at her in my rear view mirror, she was flashing her lights, honking and making a rude gesture at me.
'I don't like people filming other people without their consent, I think it's a violation of their privacy. The reason why the incident didn't just stop there is because I didn't see any suffering. What I saw was her laughing at me and filming me after I asked her to stop.
'It wasn't a nervous laugh, it was a stimulating laugh. I regret my behavior, but there are a number of statements that I dispute.”
Judge Orla Austin said she found Ms Isaacs a “wholly credible witness” and found Abbott guilty.
She said: 'It's very clear to me from the footage that he was banging on her car. The level of anger was extremely high. I do not believe you. I notice you did all those things and you were completely threatening. The anger was disproportionate to the incident.”
She warned Bournemouth's Abbott that he faces jail time as the incident was the 'most serious' of such offences.
Sentencing was postponed until later this month for probation to review Abbott.
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