First Published: Jul 14, 2011
A 29-year-old man has handed himself in to a south London police station in connection with the assault on cyclist Simon Page.
John Nicholls of Dartford in Kent attended the police station accompanied by a solicitor, at which point he was arrested on suspicion of assault.
At 13.34pm today he was charged with the offence of Common Assault by Beating and bailed to appear before Bexley Magistrates Court on July 25.
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DRIVERS OF HGVS
Would there have such uproar or would this be have made the news if it didn't involve a bike lane? Presumably the other road works would have happened anyway but seen as a minor inconvenience. But cyclists.
"Specialist Met Police units that investigate fatal collisions involving DRIVER OF HGV’s and London buses..."
It's well known that innocent bystanders, and the driver of the vehicle veering off the road and into them, have equal culpability.
This is interesting (that most reports come from cyclists) as I thought CyclingMikey said that the majority of dangerous driving reports are from other drivers. Not sure if he meant for the Met police (London) or country wide. So it would be good to get countrywide stats and breakdowns.
Right. And you're supposed to do what, exactly, when you spot someone driving straight at you?
It's not really even taxpayers money. Calling it that is part of the continued attempt by the right to frame public finances in the same way as personal finances in order to persuade people to support spending cuts.
We can probably also predict the UCI taking a nice chunk of change to put their logo on kit so it can be used in the peloton.
I'm going to defend Steve slightly here. I disagreed with him on the larger front lights, where in a given "programme" you an still cycle through high/medium/low/flashing modes, which is plenty to cover most use cases, without needing to change into a different programme. But with these small lights, each "programme" only consists of a single constant level and single flashing level. And with only six options in total, cycling through all of them wouldn't seem too onerous. I certainly find with my TraceR, if I'm riding by myself I'll typically use Programme 1 (the brightest option), but if I'm riding with other other people , I want to drop the power down to a lower level, which does mean changing programme. Given my usual cycling club meeting point is ~20 minutes from home, this means starting in P1, changing to P3 when I get to the meeting point, then changing back to P1 for the ride home. Again, you do get used to it and it's not the end of the world, but it ends up being more faff than just cycling through a few more options, as you would with pretty much any other light. I'm also going to agree that the button can be a bit hard to find, especially with gloves. I don't think it would be a problem for a front light where you can see what you're doing, but trying to press the button on a seatpost-mounted TraceR whilst riding can be tricky! All that said, my TraceR, like my Sirius, is still going strong after several years. I have various other lights knocking around, but the TraceR is still the one I reach for first.
I did not want to click in so I'm assuming that Lancaster Police are more interested in catching the person who sprayed the dog faeces than the person who didn't clear it up. Spraying it makes it easier to spot so that someone else doesn't tread in it, helps authorities identify it so that they can clear it up, and maybe, just maybe, the perpetrator will see it and feel a tiny bit ashamed. Shame on you Lancaster Police, but then that is what others here have been saying for a long time.
47 thoughts on “Bexley video attack, man arrested”
Great news
Great news
About time and i hope it
About time and i hope it turns out they can link him to the car owner as a friend of some kind and have the owner charged with obstructing the police in the course of their enquiry
Quite. Thick as thieves. A
Quite. Thick as thieves. A bunch of thugs.
The big question really is:
The big question really is: where is he from – Bexley or elsewhere? OldRidgeback’s reputation hangs in the balance…
handlebarcam wrote:The big
Dunno what my reputation has to do with it but… Dartford is a charming place, with a big busy bridge that goes to an equally charming part of Essex.
Unless the driver was given permission to drive the vehicle, then the charge of taking without owner’s consent (TWOC) would stand as mentioned earlier. The driver may also be guilty of driving without insurance, even if he was given permission. If he says the owner did allow him to drive the car then the owner should also be charged with obstruction, again as mentioned earlier. What we haven’t seen yet is whether the vehicle owner is a Bexley resident.
we have that info in the
we have that info in the story now handlebarcam
tony_farrelly wrote:we have
He’s a Dartford man? Well that explains it. (Disclaimer: I have never been to Dartford, this is a joke referencing an earlier thread.)
Having googled Dartford, I can say that he probably had little real choice but to give himself up, given its proximity to Bexley.
what a ‘banker’…..trying to
what a ‘banker’…..trying to be hard infront of his mates gets him a court appearance. there was no need for that kind of aggression.
Common Assault..
That’s about
Common Assault..
That’s about right.
Awesome news, good work to
Awesome news, good work to all at road.cc and all the other places this story was passed onto. Nice to see a little karmic retribution…
Agree with Gkam84, would make it even sweeter if the idiot owner of the car who was shielding him had a little karma back too.
On another front, is it just me or does he look rough as f**k for a 29 year old?? 😀
I condemn his actions but we
I condemn his actions but we should at least give him some credit for coming forward at last and saving any further expense of police time in tracking him down.
(If, that is, the Metplod could be arsed to spend the resources anyway)
Paul M wrote:I condemn his
Yeah, that’s exactly what the Police would have been doing.. 😕 😕
No credit given, he handed himself in as he was probably getting annoyed with everyone he knew calling him up saying he was on the news, thus trying to save his own neck. It’s only the tenacious natures of the victim that has bought this to some kind of closure. Otherwise it would have sunk into obscurity and punchy half wit would have got away scot free.
stuartpeck1 wrote:No credit
Yes, or else he got the fear and called his solicitor, who said “you’re bang to rights, hand yourself in so at least there’ll be *something* to say in your defence in court”.
Thats also true Paul M, he
Thats also true Paul M, he manned up and came forward because if they hadn’t i dont think the police would have bothered with them
But also, only common assault? should at least have thrown a breach of the peace in considering the amount of people who were around, there are other charges, but not sure they apply in England
He is a rather big guy and his mate, i’m thinking it may be premature ageing due to the abuse of muscle building drugs 👿 👿
Great news
Driving without
Great news 🙂
Driving without insurance too?
sc129806 wrote:Great news
Taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent as well?
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/12
Would really like additional
Would really like additional charges involved:
If the car owner still insists car was taken without permission, then driving without insurance and even car theft.
If car owner goes back on his word, then is there something like a charge of obstruction of investigation/justice?
Good point Tony, i forgot
Good point Tony, i forgot about that, The owner said that the car must have been stolen, so either the owner will HAVE to be charged for the lies or the driver for TWOC
I do hope he changes his mobile number aswell, cause i little google search shows his FULL name and phone number
Up on Aunty
Up on Aunty too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14150913
@PaulM
Give him credit? You
@PaulM
Give him credit? You must be joking. The only thing he should be given is a day in the stocks on Bexley common.
@Gkam84
Given Nicholls’ behaviour and character, old school Touching the Dog’s Arse is more appropriate than TWOC… 😀
Second the congratulations to road.cc for championing this story.
Lol, but problem with a TDA
Lol, but problem with a TDA is he “took the car back” to where he “stole” it from :B 👿
A day in the stocks is a
A day in the stocks is a great idea. Bare arsed and used as a feckin bike rack for the day ought to do it.
result
result
Testosterone-fuelled halfwit.
Testosterone-fuelled halfwit. If he’s been abusing steroids for long enough, his noodly appendage will be atrophied with any luck and he won’t be reproducing any time soon.
Result.
Cracking news !
Instead of
Cracking news !
Instead of Common Assault they should go for Affray – Sect 3 Public Order Act (using unlawful violence in a public place) it would command a higher sentence in court than a common assault (well, in the North it does).
Sure taking a vehicle without
Sure taking a vehicle without an owners consent is a charge that should be bought against him?
If not the car owner should be up for perverting the course of justice.
gazzaputt wrote:Sure taking a
I think it depends on how the police questioned the owner, ie. did they show the owner a picture of the theif. If the owner just said he didnt know where the car was and it turns out the acused IS insured to drive that car (either on the cars policy or under his own insurance policy) then there is no case, unless they did show the owner a picture and it can be proved he lied about knowing the acused.
Brilliant news. Hopefully
Brilliant news. Hopefully this scum will be punished properly. But likely to get a fine and told not to do it again. Until the next time. What a Moron
http://www.jjfarriers.co.uk/a
http://www.jjfarriers.co.uk/about.html
👿
This is the perpetrator apparently! Let’s hope he’s nicer to horses!
He should beat up his web
He should beat up his web designer.
elyobelyob wrote:He should
=))
SimpleSimon
He should sort out some of the spelling on his website. It makes him look unprofeshionnell!
Given the incident that happened and some of the comments about him, the photo with him holding a tissue might be best changed as well.
SimpleSimon
The inability to spell or punctuate correctly on the website says it all. Have a look and have a laugh at the illiterate moron.
Born in Great Yarmouth?
Born in Great Yarmouth? *that* explains a lot 😀
Having said that, I used to
Having said that, I used to love that old wooden rollercoaster.
Glad to see the thug will be
Glad to see the thug will be called to account. Community service order with a bike recycling project?
But Ridgeback, John has high
But Ridgeback, John has high scores in his A levels in Law, History and Maths, AND he has Dip WCF after his name, see? His inability to spell is obviously not his fault, it’s society’s.
dullard wrote:But Ridgeback,
You could be right on that score. It’d be a good defence in court I reckon. “It’s not my fault, it’s society’s.”
I did note he didn’t claim an A level in English.
I’m sorry, but watch the
I’m sorry, but watch the video again, does that look like a guy who would be doing delicate jobs on horses?
Also, i’m not sure about it being him because he’s about half the size in the photo compared to the video
Maybe someone should give him a ring, as if he undertakes any other jobs, i thought Farriers were a bit like blacksmiths? see if he wants to start repairing some bike frames that other thugish drivers have done damage to 👿
The police are hopeless in
The police are hopeless in these cases.
I was purposefully and maliciously driven into whilst cycling, and knocked onto the pavement (thankfully not under the car) in a similar incident at the end of last year. The driver proceeded to get out and verbally abuse me as I lay on the ground before driving away. There were two independent witnesses, and the incident as well as the registration number of the offender’s car (RO08 XYT) were reported to the police within 15 minutes but they still did nothing. Glad to hear there might be one less ignorant idiot on the roads as a result of this guy’s efforts. I’m tempted to get a helmet camera…
Quote:I’m sorry, but watch
Well, it goes to show you can’t judge a book by it’s cover. ‘There’s nothing as funny as folk’ as they say.
Good news. Stocks? Where’s
Good news. Stocks? Where’s the rehabilitation in that? Give him a decent road bike and make him ride 100 miles nonstop with a gilet saying ‘Beep if you hate cyclists’ on the back. That’ll earn his respect.
Dartford born..? Sounds too refined for him to me. Sure he’s not from Chatham? (I refer you to previous joke threads…) : )
what a nobhead.
what a nobhead.
Either the owner of the car
Either the owner of the car is prosecuted for perverting the course of justice, or the thug is done for car theft as well.
Bring back hanging !
This is what I bought as a
This is what I bought as a result of the incident, and was advised to get a spare battery and a 16Gb card
http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/camsports-hdmax-extreme-1080p-helmet-camera.html
Chuck him in a windowless
Chuck him in a windowless cell with one light bulb hooked up to a bike, no wheels… just a dynamo.
Scute wrote:Chuck him in a
And a cyclist punching him in the face when he dips under 40k an hour – There’s training incentive right there.
Actually, punchy made it into Cycling Weekly on Thursday.