Kevin Armstrong, 63, who compelled Morium Akther, 24, to tug over and advised her ‘We are able to both do that the great manner or the nasty manner’
A motorist who impersonated a police officer and threatened a younger girl after forcing her to tug over has walked free from court docket.
Morium Akther was driving to work when Kevin Armstrong drove beside her, whereas flashing white LED lights from his dashboard, telling her to cease.
Believing he was a police officer, terrified Morium, 24, parked her automotive on a slip highway close to Gateshead, Tyne and Put on, and wound her window down.
The 63-year-old advised her she was rushing and driving dangerously and that he was going to situation her with a rushing ticket.
When she denied this, he advised her ‘we are able to both do that the great manner or the nasty manner’.
Morium was saved by a commuter who realised Armstrong was pretending to be a police officer and scared him off.
Armstrong was discovered responsible of impersonating a police officer at South Tyneside Magistrates Courtroom and pleaded responsible to a few different driving offences.
Nevertheless he was in a position to stroll away from court docket with a £620 positive, factors on his licence and neighborhood service.
Knowledge supervisor Morium, from Newcastle, mentioned: ‘He pulled his automotive subsequent to mine and was yelling at me to tug over.
‘He had flashing lights on his automotive and I assumed he was a police officer.
‘He mentioned I used to be rushing and pulling out and in of lanes.
‘Once I advised him I wasn’t he turned extra aggressive and mentioned he would give me a rushing ticket.
‘I fully froze, I did not know what was happening. I’ve by no means been pulled over by the police so I did not know if this was a traditional manner for them to behave.
‘Finally, one other driver pulled up and advised me he wasn’t a police officer and I might go away.’
She added: ‘I by no means came upon what his intentions had been, but it surely’s terrifying to consider.
‘If he advised me to get out of my automotive and go in his, I’d have.
‘I used to be so frightened and I’d have left my cellphone in my automotive in my panic.
‘He might have finished something to me.’
Morium Akther, 24, from Newcastle, mentioned she was terrified by Armstrong and would have finished what he mentioned if one other commuter did not step in and assist
Morium added: ‘He appeared very creepy and his tone was aggressive.
‘After I drove away I considered the way it might have been a lot worse.
‘I saved considering that I might have been damage or killed.
‘When he was pulling me over, I did not suppose I used to be in peril as I believed he was a professional police officer.’
Armstrong pleaded responsible to driving a automobile and stopping it on a highway designated as a clearway, allowing a automobile to stay at relaxation on a highway in order to contain a hazard and utilizing a automobile with an routinely emitted a flashing gentle.
He initially denied impersonating a police officer however was discovered responsible at South Tyneside Magistrates Courtroom.
Morium (above) mentioned: ‘He appeared very creepy and his tone was aggressive. After I drove away I considered the way it might have been a lot worse. I saved considering that I might have been damage or killed’
Mr Armstrong, of Farndale Drive, Guisborough, North Yorkshire, needed to pay a £620 positive.
He additionally obtained three factors on his license, 120 hours unpaid work and 10 days of rehabilitation necessities.
Sharon Bryan, Head of Partnerships and Growth on the Nationwide Centre for Home Violence, has slammed the lenient sentence.
She mentioned: ‘It isn’t a deterrent in any respect. No matter buzz or thrill he will get from doing this can outweigh the punishment he is obtained.
‘The horrifying factor is we do not know what might have occurred if somebody hadn’t intervened.
‘It isn’t dramatic to say that if these behaviours aren’t stopped they’ll result in extra violence and girls being killed.’
Morium has additionally criticised the sentence, and claims he acquired off evenly.
She mentioned: ‘He acquired off evenly. Three factors for pulling somebody over and scaring the life out of them is nothing.
‘Each time I see flashing lights I get actually scared and suppose it is him.
‘I did not go away my home for per week after the incident.
‘Within the aftermath, I considered the Sarah Everard case, I do know Wayne Couzens was really a police officer however you by no means know what somebody is able to.
‘He might have finished something to me.’
Armstrong was discovered responsible of impersonating a police officer at South Tyneside Magistrates Courtroom