Hunstanton dad treated campsite 'like a rally course'
He's been stripped of his licence.
A furious dad from Hunstanton drove around a campsite “like a rally driver” with his children in the back, according to Norfolk Police.
Ryan Harrowing had earlier argued with his own father and then punched him numerous times in the head and chest, leaving him in a rage.
The 27-year-old then put two of his children in his Volkswagen Golf and drove dangerously around the Mad Hatter's Campsite in Second Drove, Queen Adelaide, near Ely on 7 August last year, narrowly missing a tent where children were sleeping.
Witnesses described how he drove between tents and on grass footpaths at relatively high speed.
When police arrived, he tried to drive across a field in an attempt to get away, but his vehicle got stuck in the mud and he was arrested.
Harrowing, from Waveney Road, Hunstanton, went on to admit assault causing actual bodily harm and dangerous driving.
On Friday (17 September) at Cambridge Crown Court Harrowing was sentenced to ten months in prison, suspended for two years, and disqualified from driving for two years. He was also ordered to complete 120 hours of unpaid work, 30 days of rehabilitation activity and pay the victim of the assault £685 compensation.
PC Joe Braddick said: “Harrowing’s behaviour that day was inexplicable and utterly reckless. He drove around a crowded area like a rally driver with no thought to the harm he could do.
“He narrowly missed a number of members of the public, coming so close to one woman that he knocked her flipflop off.
“Thankfully nobody was injured but it could have easily been much worse.”