Hunt for Flintshire man who threw burger at pregnant mum

A hunt has been launched for a man who failed to turn up in court after he threw a burger at a pregnant woman in a road rage incident.

Anthony Lee Godfrey was convicted of common assault yesterday after pleading not guilty at a previous hearing.

The 30-year-old threw the burger at Jennifer Carr when he got into an argument with her and her partner after he cut them off in traffic on Station Road, Queensferry. Miss Carr’s two-year-old child was in the car at the time of the incident last December.

Miss Carr’s partner was forced to slam on the brakes when Godfrey, of Garden City, Deeside, pulled out in front of them.

Godfrey got out of his car and approached the vehicle in which Miss Carr was a passenger.

She said: “He came over to my side of the car, I said something to him along the lines of ‘there’s a baby in the car’.

“He then went over to my partner’s side of the car and started to mouth off. He looked like he was really tense and his fists were closed. He was yelling he was going to kill me and knock me out.”

Godfrey walked away then Miss Carr said “he threw what was either a burger or a sandwich at my face”.

Describing the incident to magistrates in Mold yesterday, she said she felt “disgusted” by what he had done. She added that she had not provoked Godfrey. “I would not have been aggressive to him, I had a baby in the car,” she said.

Prosecuting, Ryan Rothwell said Godfrey had previously admitted throwing the burger but said it had been done in self defence. A warrant without bail was issued for Godfrey’s arrest.