Thomas Michael Beakbane, 52, known as Michael Beakbane, was found guilty by Prestatyn magistrates of using threatening behaviour towards traffic officer Philip Newell and assaulting PC Peter Doran, who was called as back-up.
Mr Newell, who has now retired from the force, told the court that on February 27 last year he was driving through the traffic lights on the A548 near Asda, Kinmel Bay, when he passed a VW caravanette being driven by Beakbane’s son Robert. Michael Beakbane, of Rhyl, who was sitting in the back of the van, moved his hand up and down in what the officer took to be a rude gesture. “I took it that he was calling me a ‘wanker’,” he said.
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The officer turned his car around and when the caravanette stopped a little further on , Beakbane Snr was immediately aggressive. Mr Newell told the court that in his rear-view mirror he saw Beakbane push PC Doran’s door shut as his colleague tried to get out. PC Doran’s finger was dislocated, and he had to pull it back into place before going to hospital.
Beakbane, of Penymaes Avenue, Rhyl, told the court that he suffered from epilepsy and had suffered a seizure just a few minutes earlier. Because of that he had his false teeth in the hand with which he was alleged to have gesticulated. “When you come out of a seizure you don’t know what you’re doing half the time,” he said.
He denied having been disorderly or abusive, and claimed that PC Doran had sworn at him. Both he and his wife Gillian, who had also been in the caravanette, said he was not close to PC Doran’s car when he injured his finger.
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