Yobs laugh after knocking cyclist off bike on pavement with their car

This is the shocking moment yobs laughed after knocking a cyclist on the pavement off their bike with their car. 

Patrick James, 22, was in the car in Bristol as it mounted the kerb and rammed into Julian Ford, who suffered smashed ribs and internal bleeding.

The video was discovered on James's phone as detectives investigated him and his friend, 26-year-old Phillip Adams, for a separate hit-and-run attack that occurred ten days later.

In the second attack on July 22, an NHS worker Katungua Tjitendero, then 21, was walking home from work at Southmead Hospital in Bristol when he was hit from behind by a blue Honda Accord.

Pictures taken of the aftermath of the incident showed the car resting against a wall with a smashed windscreen on the driver's side.

Mr Tjitendero was rushed to hospital, where both he and his mother Hivaka work, for emergency treatment.

Detective Superintendent Mike Buck, who led the investigation into the attack on Katungua, said: 'From nowhere, a car attacked him from behind.

'He had no chance and was left with devastating injuries.'

James and Adams ran from the car, with one of them shouting a racially abusive term at Mr Tjitendero.

At Bristol Crown Court on Friday, James, of Broadlands Drive, Avonmouth, and Adams, of Eastleigh Road, Southmead, were found guilty of conspiracy to cause intentional grievous bodily harm for the attack on Mr Tjitendero.

James was also found guilty of intentional grievous bodily harm following the assault on Mr Ford.

The court heard that on July 16, James paid £300 for the blue Honda Accord involved in the collision. CCTV from petrol stations around the area showed James using the car over the following days.

Detective Superintendent Mike Buck, of Avon and Somerset Police, described the attacks as 'absolutely sickening'.

He said: 'It was later in the investigation, some time later, in fact, that we identified this attack on Julian Ford, only 10 days beforehand, and realised the significance, that this wasn't an isolated incident.

'These were two linked attacks.

'Patrick James was filming the attack and you hear him on the video, and the driver, laughing both before and afterwards as they drive off.'

Adams's DNA was found in the car and he told officers he had been in the car at times.

Both men denied driving or being in the vehicle when it crashed in Monks Park Road.

Adams failed to appear in court and was tried and found guilty of the separate charges relating to Mr Tjitendero in his absence.

The pair will be sentenced on Monday

Two other men, Jordan McCarthy, 22, and Daniel Whereatt, 51, denied a charge of conspiracy to cause GBH to Mr Tjitendero and were acquitted by the jury.