Joseph Hedley became involved in a confrontation with the cyclist before violently attacking him at the city’s Cowgate in September 2024.
Hedley, 39, left his vehicle and approached the innocent male, before grabbing him by the neck and violently throwing him to the ground.
The victim smashed his head off the road and suffered serious head injuries, including a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.
Hedley then left the 34-year-old cyclist lying unconscious in the middle of the road as he got back into his car and drove off.
Hedley, from Kirkcaldy, subsequently found out police had put out an appeal to find the motorist involved and handed himself into a local station two days later.
He pled guilty to assault to severe injury, permanent impairment and danger of life when he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
More info here https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/courts/5582699/cyclist-brain-injury-road-rage-fife-driver/
Satisfying that he was found guilty.
That cunt of a woman should also be held accountable for just leaving the scene of a brain injury without helping.
They both deserve prison.
pleaded guilty
Pleading guilty still requires a court finding of guilt in order to reach a final disposition.
paywall for me, could someone copy paste here, I still have (naives) hopes that some justice has been done
and how do they break the reader mode: it loop back to the wall? It’s the first time I’ve seen this
edit: the link in the post description worked, but I take from this that he’s still walking free at the moment
That’s the main jist of things
No road-rage context justifies his assault
I don’t know the guy who did it, but think he probably originally told it differently to his mates
Only 2-4 years expected sentence. Way too low.