This is the 'astonishing moment' a group of thugs in a BMW chase down a van before attacking it in the middle of a busy carriageway. The group launched items at the vehicle, blocked it from driving away and even stepped out onto A55 to kick the van, North Wales Online reports.
The dramatic video was played at Caernarfon Crown Court on Monday where four men were sentenced in connection with the attack. A judge called the incident, which took place in September last year, a "prolonged, persistent and deliberate course of very bad driving".
BMW driver Ali Najam, 26, and his passengers Said Sadat, Pedro Bergantim and Demi Ward had been driving around North Wales when they got into an argument with van driver Sean Powell. They claim he had driven over of foot of one of the defendants.
The video, recorded by an unspecified person in a vehicle behind, shows the black BMW actually stopping on the westbound carriageway of the A55 four times. The occupants throw items including a plastic water bottle and one carries a metal bar, while another kicks the van.
Eventually, Mr Powell drives off and exits the A55 at the Black Cat roundabout near the Glan Conwy Corner. The BMW was followed to the Great Orme and police arrested the driver and three passengers.
Najam, of Blackberry Lane, Brinnington, Stockport, was jailed for 22 months for affray and 15 months concurrent for dangerous driving. Sadat, 23, of Tamworth Street, Oldham, was jailed for 18 months for affray.
Bergantim, 22, of Taunton Road, Ashton under Lyne, and Demi Ward, 21, of Sandstone Way, Manchester, were given suspended sentences for affray.
On Monday, prosecutor Richard Edwards had said that the nature of the incident had been "terrifying" for Mr Powell.
The judge His Honour Timothy Petts told the defendants it had been an "astonishing and appalling" incident.
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