Car passenger sentenced after pulling cyclist off his bike in ‘idiotic’ assault  

Ashton Nutting claimed he acted in self defence when he leaned out of the car window to grab the rider

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A car passenger has been sentenced after he injured a cyclist by pulling him off his bike in an “idiotic” assault. 

Ashton Nutting the passenger in a car when the occupants shouted abuse at a cyclist as they overtook him on Monday, January 27 last year, Leicestershire Live reports. 

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