The victim of an irate driver who went viral for shouting abuse at her outside a Tesco has said she 'doesn't want him to do it to anyone else' as he has been convicted of threatening behaviour.
Samantha Isaacs, in her late 50s, was approached by Peter Abbott, 60, after she honked at him and cut him up outside a Tesco. petrol station.
Abbott got out of his car and began shouting at the terrified woman, who runs and has worked with a TV production company Prince William and Alan Titchmarsh.
She locked her doors and began filming the irate man pounding his fists on the windscreen before unleashing the foul-mouthed tirade.
After the shocking incident, Isaacs said: “He is 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.'
A terrified Isaacs (pictured outside court), who runs a TV production company and has worked with Prince William and Alan Titchmarsh, locked her doors and started filming. She said she 'doesn't want him to do it to anyone else' as he has now been convicted of threatening behaviour
Peter Abbott, 60, snapped and shouted at Samantha Isaacs as she sat in her car, calling her a 'f***ing s**g' and a 'f***ing annoying woman'
Mr Abbott, 60, was sentenced at Poole Magistrates' Court, where he was warned by a judge that he faces jail time for the road rage incident outside a Tesco petrol station
The road rage incident happened on August 25 last year when Isaacs was leaving the petrol station Tesco Extra 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 honked, prompting Abbott to make rude gestures at her before stopping his Toyota car and getting out.
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 ground.
'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***ing s**g and wh***.
Mrs Isaacs was leaving the Tesco Extra petrol station in Bournemouth, Dorset (shown by the green arrow above) when Abbott, who had been shopping in the main store, drove in front of her (red arrow), knocking her to the ground. her brakes. Circled is a priority sign
Abbott claimed he was the victim of road rage as Ms Isaacs had blown her horn several times, flashed her lights at him and made a rude gesture, but the judge did not believe him.
He shouted at her, “Can you fucking see me, damn pie?” He then called her a 's**g' and a 'wh***' and put his head against the windscreen.
A male motorist intervened and called Abbott a bully. The Good Samaritan told 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.
'He banged on the windshield and my door with both fists. I was scared, so I started filming it,” Isaacs added.
'I wanted to show him that I was recording everything to get him to stop. I locked my doors, I didn't get out of my car.
“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 after it's been so long, but it's still not fun to watch [the video].
“He pulled into the road and stopped the car again. When we turned left at the traffic lights, he stopped the car again. I caught up to him and then realized how stupid it was because I realized that meant he was following me. Then I called the police.'
District Judge Orla Austin asked 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.
'I work in television, mainly in London, and my daughter has had to take on more of my work because I don't want to drive.
“Everyone seems so aggressive on the road these days, I don't want to be in this position again.”
He shouted at her, “Can you fucking see me, damn pie?” He then called her a 's**g' and a 'wh***' and put his head against the windscreen
The 60-year-old pounded her windshield with his fists before unleashing the foul-mouthed tirade
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 that he was in fact the victim of road rage as 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.
'Rightly or wrongly, I am that type of person. If someone behaves like that towards me, I want to say something, I will call him out on it. I will do it with anyone, regardless of gender, size or age.
'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 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.
'Anger is not a rational function. I regret my behavior, but there are a number of statements that I dispute.'
Shami Duggal, prosecuting, said: 'In the footage you were extremely verbally abusive, threatening and intimidating.
“That wasn't reasonable behavior, was it?”
Abbott responded, “No, I agree, but it was for a reason. It's not against the law to be angry.'
Judge Orla Austin said she found Isaacs a “completely 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 don't believe you, I can tell you did all those things and you were completely threatening. The anger was disproportionate to the incident.
“Your intention was to cause her intimidation, alarm and fear. She was on her own, you assaulted her repeatedly, it was sustained abuse and had major consequences for her.”
She warned Bournemouth's Abbott that he faced a prison sentence because the incident was the 'most serious' of these types of offenses and he had allowed the victim to face trial despite 'overwhelming evidence'.
Sentencing was postponed until later this month for probation to review Abbott.