A Pembroke man has been sent to prison for three months to reflect on a moment of anger that caused him to lash out at a woman who intervened at the scene of a road collision.

Antoine Elmo Thompson admitted assaulting the woman when he appeared at Magistrates? Court. He also faced a number of traffic charges.

The court heard yesterday that Thompson, of Footbridge Lane, rode his motorcycle onto the wrong side of the road on Curving Avenue, Pembroke, and almost into the path of a woman on an auxiliary cycle who was riding in the opposite direction.

The woman cyclist swerved to avoid him, but Thompson changed direction again and struck the woman?s cycle, causing her to fall off.

Crown counsel Cindy Clarke said a woman pedestrian who witnessed the incident ran up to Thompson and said she had seen what had happened. During an exchange of words. Thompson struck the woman and threw a broken cycle side mirror at her.

Police arrested Thompson, 34, who admitted hitting the woman. It was subsequently found that he had no driver?s licence at the time of the incident.

In court, Thompson said: ?I?m sorry for what happened. She came right up to my face and I had to defend myself.?

Asked by magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo if he was justifying his actions, Thompson said no.

Mr. Tokunbo said: ?This is so unseemly and unjustified as you have no other convictions.?

He ordered Thompson to serve three months in prison for the assault, with a number of traffic offences, including having no licence, speeding and driving without due care and attention to be served as prison time concurrent with his three months in jail.