Get ready to die! Attenborough producer in astonishing road rage rant at motorist
a TV producer behind many of sir David attenborough’s BBC wildlife documentaries told a family he wanted them to die during a road rage tirade.
Fergus Beeley attempted to put simon Gale and his family under a citizen’s arrest following a motorway incident.
He grabbed mr Gale, 33, by the neck and screamed: ‘Get back in your car before you die. You’re under a citizen’s arrest, put your hands on the car and get ready to die.’
The award-winning film maker also called the family ‘w******’ and is alleged to have asked them: ‘Do you know who i am?’
mr Beeley, 54, spent 19 years at the BBC’s Natural History Unit and produced programmes including The life of Birds and Planet earth: The Future.
His skoda Octavia was involved in an incident with two other cars on the m27 near southampton airport on saturday morning. all three drivers are understood to have
‘I want you dead right now’
pulled on to the hard shoulder before driving to a sainsbury’s car park.
When the police arrived, mr Beeley and tyre fitter mr Gale made allegations of assault against each other. But both decided not to pursue their complaints.
mobile phone footage filmed by mr Gale’s mother-in-law Victoria Beaumont has since emerged showing mr Beeley’s four-minute rant in the car park.
The footage begins with the TV producer ordering mr Gale, his wife louise, their 14-year-old son Joshua and mrs Beaumont to ‘come out of the vehicle’.
mrs Beaumont accuses mr Beeley of impersonating a police officer, to which he replies: ‘i wouldn’t say that to a bunch of w****** like you.’
she tells him: ‘ Do not speak to me like that.’ He then says: ‘You deserve it you old sl**.’
When the adults get out of the Peugeot 107, mr Beeley attempts to put them under a citizen’s arrest for ‘dangerous driving, abuse and assault’.
mrs Beaumont then says: ‘ You said you want us dead.’ The TV producer replies: ‘i do want you dead. in fact i want you dead right now. Get back in your car.’
He then tells mr Gale to ‘get ready to die’.
The footage was posted on Face- book and Twitter on sunday night. Yesterday mrs Gale, from salisbury, said her son ‘keeps looking out the window thinking [mr Beeley] is coming to kill us’.
mr Beeley lives in a detached house with his second wife ardiana and their two daughters in the grounds of the Badminton estate in Gloucestershire, which is the seat of the Duke of Beaufort.
a woman who answered the door refused to comment yesterday.