A man who smashed into an armed policeman as he tried to speed away from officers investigating a shooting has been jailed for nearly 12 years.
Aydin Altun, 26, sped towards officers - who were shouting armed police, show me your hands - in a bid to get away in Tottenham, North London, in October last year.
Footage showed his car slamming into PC Lewis Crowder, who was left clinging to the bonnet of the black Mercedes as the driver zig-zagged across the road to throw him off the car.
After a few seconds on the bonnet, the officer was seen somersaulting across the road onto the pavement.
A dangerous driver has been jailed for 11 years and nine months for mowing down an armed police officer in his Mercedes. Aydin Altun, 26, was facing arrest at gunpoint in Tottenham on October 29 last year when he ploughed his vehicle into Pc Lewis Crowder. Pc Crowder and two of his colleagues in the firearms unit had stopped the Mercedes following an investigation into a shooting the previous evening. He had his semi-automatic rifle raised and was shouting “armed police, armed police, show me your hands, show me your hands” when Altun floored the accelerator. Pc Crowder clung on to the bonnet for a split second before being thrown off – missing concrete bollards and a bus stop by inches.
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A man who mowed down an armed police officer who had been trying to stop his car has been jailed.
Aydin Altun, 26, drove his Mercedes at PC Lewis Crowder in Tottenham, north London, on 29 October last year.
The officer clung on to the bonnet for a split-second before throwing himself from the vehicle.
Altun, of Suffolk Road, Tottenham, was jailed for 11 years and nine months having previously been found guilty of attempted GBH with intent.
An Old Bailey jury cleared him of attempted murder.
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