Road rage attack left cyclist hospitalised
Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter.A motorist left a cyclist hospitalised with a badly injured arm in a horror road rage attack.Scott Vandermotten, 31, “saw red” when he assaulted Michael Newlands by pushing him off his bike, causing him to fall down the side of a cycle path, injuring his arm severely.A trial at Paisley Sheriff Court heard Vandermotten, of Bishopton, claimed Mr Newlands had cut in front of him as he waited in traffic at Napier Street, in Johnstone, on March 3, last year.He also insisted Mr Newlands had struck his car’s bonnet, causing damage, before cycling away.Vandermotten parked at a Morrisons supermarket car