MAN JAILED FOR USING PICKUP TRUCK AS 'BATTERING RAM' IN HUDDERSFIELD
A man has been jailed for using his pickup truck as a “battering ram” against his ex’s car.Zoltan Perjesi, now of no fixed abode, rammed his Toyota Hilux into the mother of his child’s Honda Jazz, causing it to spin out of control.
The 48-year-old and his partner lived together but they had been having problems – with him claiming she was having an affair.
Kirklees Magistrates’ Court previously heard that she had kicked him out of their home in Paddock on February 11.
Prosecutor Michael Greenhalgh told Leeds Crown Court that around noon that day the mother of two left the house and got into her car when the defendant arrived in his truck.
She was fearful so drove away, but he drove after her and, as she was making a right turn not far from their home, he rammed the side of her vehicle, causing it to spin around.
He continued to ram it until it came to rest on the side of the road.
She ran out of the car and into the house of a stranger, locking the door behind her.
The defendant got out of his car and told a witness that the woman was his wife and she had been having an affair with somebody else.
Perjesi, currently of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving.
The judge told him: “This offending, I’m afraid, cries out for punishment and a deterrent.” Miss Metcalfe said that the nine-year relationship was now over and her client, who worked long hours as a joiner and a tiler to provide for his family, was of previous good character in both the UK and Hungary.
She added “he finds custody very isolating” and that it was lucky no one was seriously injured.
He was jailed for eight months, with the sentence to be served on license after half, and disqualified from driving for 16 months.
The judge also made a deprivation order in respect of the truck.
Perjesi did not react as he was sent down.
