Cambridge e-bike rider jailed for punching doctor

Raeqwon Rhodes was jailed at Cambridge Crown Court

An e-bike rider has been jailed after punching a doctor who was "standing up for his wife" in a city centre.

Raeqwon Rhodes, 24, and two friends were riding e-bikes in Cambridge at speed when the victim's wife was hit by one in August last year.

Judge Philip Grey said when Rhodes was confronted he was "aggressive and arrogant" and punched the victim.

Rhodes, of Mowbray Road, Cambridge, was jailed for 27 months for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Cambridge Crown Court also heard Rhodes was in breach of a suspended sentence at the time of the offence.

Bleeding heavily

The court was told that the attack took place on a Sunday afternoon on 7 August 2022 on Garrett Hostel Lane, which runs near the River Cam and Cambridge colleges.

At about the same time as the victim's wife was hit, a child in a push chair was also narrowly avoided, the court heard.

Rhodes then said to the victim "all she had to do was move out of the way", before saying "do you want to punch me?" and then punching the victim in the eye.

It caused him to bleed heavily from his eyebrow.

Judge Grey said the area "would have been packed" and told Rhodes "the only sensible and decent thing to do was say sorry and move away".

"You were not being threatened by him," said the judge.

Rhodes was sentenced to 21 months for the assault, which he admitted, to be served consecutively to the activation of six months for breach of a suspended sentence for drug offences.