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Foul-mouthed Freddy is fined for road rage tirades that left victims shaken
A DRIVER has been rapped for upsetting people with vile road-rage rants… from his mobility scooter.
Foul-mouthed Frederick Wilkinson shouted at one pedestrian: “You f ****** daft t***, get out of the f ****** way.”
And the 53-year-old, known as Freddy, told a woman of 76 on a scooter to “F*** off ” after refusing to let her pass.
David Houlston told magistrates he was in a HSBC branch when he heard a commotion outside last September.
He said: “Some person was swearing like a trooper. There was a lady by me, in her 70s. She appeared frightened.”
Mr Houlston said the street was busy and a decorator working outside looked shocked. Mr Houlston said: “He said, ‘Some bloke just had a go at me’. I saw the scooter disappearing down the road. It was Freddy.”
He told the court in Wilkinson’s home town of Llandudno, North Wales, he had heard him shouting at people before, adding: “It’s disgusting, isn’t it?”
Betty McAuliffe, 76, was at the town’s Asda the same month when she saw former neighbour Freddy.
She said: “He was coming up the path with a trailer on his scooter. I said, ‘You can’t come up the path with a trailer’, because I couldn’t get past.
“He wouldn’t let me pass him, I had to go around. He said I was nothing but a ‘f ****** bitch’. He told me to ‘f*** off ’.”
Wilkinson was found guilty of disorderly behaviour after a trial, fined a total of £120 and ordered to pay £230 costs.
Speaking at his bungalow last night, diabetic Wilkinson said: “People have it in for people on mobility scooters. I get horns blasted up my backside. I hardly go to town because of the abuse I get.
“I am not the sort to eff and blind. It’s all been twisted. Someone told me to get out of the effing way.”
He said I was nothing but a ‘f ****** bitch’. He told me to ‘f*** off’ BETTY MCAULIFFE ON ABUSE FROM WILKINSON