A DRIVER has admitted purposefully knocking a cyclist off his bike in Colchester.
The victim, a man aged in his 30s, was cycling on North Station Road with a friend when a Ford Mondeo braked heavily close by, at which point the victim gestured at the driver.
The Mondeo then swerved into the cyclist, knocking him off his bike.
The driver then made off from the scene.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment but was not seriously injured.
The driver of the car, Ashley Wallace Merrett, 30, of of Mumford Close, West Bergholt, was arrested later that day, on Friday, May 13, 2016.
He was then charged in June last year.
Merrett appeared at Ipswich Crown Court on Monday and admitted dangerous driving, actual bodily harm and common assault.
He is due to be sentenced in February.
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