An Audi driver who deliberately drove at a number of people when a fight broke out in the middle of the street has been locked up.
CCTV footage captured a group of people having a verbal altercation near Jason Plaice’s bright green Audi parked up on Redcar High Street.
Teesside Crown Court heard how the 32-year-old threw a punch at one man before getting into his car and reversing at speed before accelerating towards a group of people forcing one man to jump onto his bonnet for safety.
Annelise Haugstad, prosecuting, said Plaice then drove away from the scene in his car emblazoned with the number plate PL14ACE before returning and punching someone to the ground when a large-scale melee broke out.
A judge heard how no-one else involved in the incident just before midnight on May 31 last year had come forward to make a complaint to police.
Plaice, of Wilton Avenue, Dormanstown, Redcar, pleaded guilty to affray and dangerous driving following his arrest.
Tokeer Amin, mitigating, said his client had pleaded guilty to the charges at the earliest opportunity and urged the judge to take that into account when passing sentence.
He said: "He has expressed genuine remorse; he accepts that his conduct was dangerous and he apologises.”
Recorder Simon Kealey KC sentenced Plaice to 16 months in prison and banned him from driving for two years and eight months.
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“This happened just before midnight when you were in a green Audi and there were a group of people milling around the car and there appeared to be some sort of disagreement as I have watched the footage,” he said.
“You reversed your car at speed, you drove forward and somebody went onto your before. You reversed again narrowly missing others.
“There was a short gap when you drove off from the scene and returned where you punched somebody else.
“None of those present have made complaints.”
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