On 18 April 2017 the car driver was jailed for nine months for threatening behaviour.
(meta data) TITLE: Jeremy Vine 'road rage' driver jailed after losing appeal - BBC News (meta data) AUTHOR: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews 125 captures 18 Apr 2017 - 25 Oct 2022 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer. View the web archive through the Wayback Machine. Collection: Live Web Proxy Crawls Content crawled via the Wayback Machine Live Proxy mostly by the Save Page Now feature on web.archive.org. Liveweb proxy is a component of Internet Archive's wayback machine project. The liveweb proxy captures the content of a web page in real time, archives it into a ARC or WARC file and returns the ARC/WARC record back to the wayback machine to process. The recorded ARC/WARC file becomes part of the wayback machine in due course of time. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20170418180337/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39629808 ## Accessibility links Skip to content Accessibility Help BBC iD ## BBC navigation News News Sport Weather Shop Earth Travel Capital iPlayer Culture Autos Future TV Radio CBBC CBeebies Food iWonder Bitesize Travel Music Earth Arts Make It Digital Taster Nature Local Menu Search Search the BBC BBC News ## News navigation Entertainment & Arts Video & Audio In Pictures Also in the News Special Reports The Reporters Have Your Say England selected # Jeremy Vine 'road rage' driver jailed after losing appeal Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJeremy Vine road rage driver jailed following appeal A driver filmed screaming obscenities at BBC presenter Jeremy Vine as he cycled through London has been jailed after losing an appeal against her conviction for threatening behaviour. Shanique Syrena Pearson, of Vauxhall, made a gun sign at Vine during the row in Kensington on 26 August 2016. The 22-year-old was convicted in February of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour. Giving evidence earlier, Mr Vine said he "felt in danger" at the time. Pearson was jailed for nine months following the appeal hearing at Isleworth Crown Court. At the time of the incident, she was subject to a suspended sentence for a string of previous convictions for robbery, thefts and assault. Footage of the confrontation was filmed on the presenter's helmet camera and posted online, where it has since had millions of views. It shows Mr Vine trying to explain to Pearson that he was cycling along the centre of the narrow Hornton Street in Kensington to avoid the parked cars either side. Image copyright Met Police Image caption Shanique Syrena Pearson denied using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour He told the court: "I felt threatened. I felt I was in danger. I felt I was dealing with a violent person. "None of that was clear to me when she was in the car. It became clear through this incident as she assaulted, abused and threatened me." He said he did not remember being physically assaulted and that his bike had acted as a shield, while Pearson admitted pushing the bicycle as she wanted him to move out of the way of her black Vauxhall Corsa. Image copyright Image caption The 51-year-old presenter was riding from Chiswick to BBC offices near Oxford Circus Pearson denied making a gun shape with her hand, saying she stuck her middle finger up at him and had felt threatened when he cycled up to the passenger window of her car. She told the court: "I know he saw me put my middle finger up because he smiled so I know he's not telling the truth about that." She was also convicted in February of driving without reasonable consideration for other road users at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court. She had admitted driving an unlicensed vehicle. ## London live reporting ### LiveBBC London Live: Latest updates Full article BBC London Live: Latest updates ## Top Stories Theresa May to seek snap election The vote is "the only way to guarantee certainty and security for years ahead," says PM. 18 April 2017 'Facebook killer' found dead after chase 18 April 2017 Jeremy Vine 'road rage' driver jailed 18 April 2017 ## Features ### Relentless political logic behind May's U-turn ### Reality Check: What are the polls saying? ### How the press reacted to snap election ### General election: What happens in Scotland? ### Car Share: What's so great about Now 48? ### Britain's 'big bang' in Heligoland, 70 years on ### Could digital detectives solve an ancient puzzle? ### Face-to-face with top North Korean diplomat ### How a family's dogs were saved from a fiery death ## BBC News Services On your mobile On your connected tv Get news alerts Contact BBC News
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Jeremy Vine
Personal life.

 A former punk, he is a fan of Elvis Costello, whom he has seen 13 times in concert. According to an interview he gave in March 2015 on his Radio 2 show, his favourite song is "Whole Lotta Rosie" by AC/DC. Vine is the patron of Radio St. Helier, a UK registered charity providing radio programmes to patients at St. Helier Hospital in southwest London. 
 Vine is a practising Anglican and attends church. He has deplored what he sees as the marginalisation of Christians in British society, saying that "You can't express views that were common currency 30 or 40 years ago". In August 2016, a car driver threatened and was abusive to Vine while he was cycling along Hornton Street in Kensington, London. Vine captured the encounter on his helmet camera, later broadcasting it on YouTube where it was viewed several million times. Vine also reported it to the police.