A dangerous-driving teen biker cracked a hosepipe like a bull-whip as he tried to keep a female police constable at bay.

PC Ellen Simpson had chased Tyler Little down an Abingdon alleyway after earlier seeing him riding dirt bike in Steventon without a helmet and weaving in between traffic in order to evade her attempts to pull him over.

The 20-year-old – then just 18 - claimed he had the hosepipe with him in order to help nautical friend, ‘Dan’, siphon fuel from his marina-moored boat into his car. He had a spanner with him in case he needed to mend the push bike he’d borrowed from – and earlier returned to – ‘Dan’, he told the jury. The teen said he’d put the tool in the end of the hosepipe so he didn’t lose it.

Jurors at Oxford Crown Court took more than three hours to convict him of dangerous driving and using an offensive weapon – the hosepipe – to threaten PC Simpson. He had earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker by kicking a cardboard box towards the constable.

Remanding him into custody to be sentenced on December 10, Judge Michael Gledhill QC said the defendant was ‘obviously a handful, certainly in respect to the police’.

Little’s large number of previous convictions – 11 for 21 offences – included, most recently, taking a vehicle without consent and dangerous driving.

During the short trial, the 12-member jury heard that PCs Baker and Simpson were on patrol in a marked police vehicle on October 28, 2019, when they saw Little on the back of an off-road motorbike. He had a snood around the lower half of his face but was not wearing a helmet and the bike was not registered for use on the road.

Mr Baker, who claimed to recognise Little as the rider, spun his police car around and began to chase the bike down the B4017 in Steventon. They called off the chase over fears that un-helmeted Little could injure himself.

Later that day, at around 3.30pm, the rider was spotted in Abingdon. PC Simpson chased him down an alleyway, where she was confronted by the teen. He kicked a cardboard box towards her, although it missed the officer, then was said to have whipped the hosepipe he had in his hand. She told the jury she had been ‘petrified’.

Little denied riding the motorbike, telling the court he had been helping pal ‘Dan’ siphon fuel from his boat to a car. He said a comment he’d made to officers – ‘it was me, you got me’ – was him being ‘sarcastic’.

The defendant, of Reynolds Way, Abingdon, will be sentenced on December 10.

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