Tuesday 22 December 2020

Motorist Jailed For Mowing Down Armed Cop

A motorist, who ran over an armed police officer when ordered to stop has been jailed.

Aydin Altun, 26, of Suffolk Road, Tottenham received eleven years and nine months imprisonment and was banned from driving for twelve years and ten months.

He was convicted at the Old Bailey of attempted grievous bodily harm, with intent in White Hart Lane, Tottenham on October 29, last year.

Police were investigating a shooting in nearby Fairfax Road the day before and the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Crime Command took over the probe.

A black Mercedes similar to the one Altun was driving was reportedly involved so officer attempted an armed stop.

When it pulled over officers approached the front of the car and shouted: “Armed police, show me your hands.”

CCTV and body worn video footage played in court showed Altun drive forward at speed, throwing one of the armed officers onto the bonnet.

The officer was left clinging on as the car accelerated towards White Hart Lane Station. 

Altun tried to throw him off the car by zig-zagging across the road.

After a few seconds, the officer somersaulted across the road onto the pavement.

The Mercedes drove off, but officers found it a short time later abandoned in Tiverton Road, with the officer’s mobile still wedged between the bonnet and windscreen.

The officer lapsed in and out of consciousness and received significant grazing and cuts to his head, elbow, knuckles and hand and was taken to hospital and later discharged.

In court the officer, said: “I remember being scared for my life, I thought I was going to die. I remember thinking if this car was going to crash, I was going to die.”

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