CCTV footage has been shared showing the moment a man from Colwyn Bay angrily drove his car into a motorcyclist in Llandudno Junction.

Christopher Heath, 37, of St David’s Road, Old Colwyn, was sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, at Caernarfon Crown Court yesterday (June 21).

The incident in question took place shortly before 9.25pm on November 12, 2022.

You can watch the footage, provided by the Crown Prosecution Service, below:

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Colwyn Bay man drove into motorcyclist outside Llandudno Junction shop

Heath was driving his red Ford Focus vehicle past the Co-op store on Conway Road when he approached Shane Hughes, who riding a motorcycle in the opposite direction.

He then overtook a parked car, straddling the carriageways and driving on the wrong side of the road, heading straight towards Mr Hughes in doing so.

Mr Hughes had to brake heavily on his motorcycle, before turning it around and heading towards Heath, who by then had parked in front of the Co-op.

Words were then exchanged between the two men.

While Mr Hughes was sat on his motorcycle with his helmet off, Heath accelerated heavily into him, knocking him off the bike and causing him to hit the bonnet and windscreen of his car.

The incident caused Mr Hughes pain in his back, ankles and wrists.

Judge Timothy Petts told Heath that he was “clearly using your car as a weapon” and that his reaction was “totally disproportionate to what had gone before”.

Mr Hughes was “very lucky indeed” to have avoided serious injury, Judge Petts added.

Heath was banned from driving for 12 months.

He was also ordered to carry out 20 days’ rehabilitation activity requirements and 250 hours’ unpaid work, as well as paying a statutory surcharge.