Cyclist Attack

Edinburgh road rage attacker avoids jail after leaving cyclist with fractured skull

Joseph Hedley, 39, received a two-year supervision order and electronic tagging rather than prison for a September 2024 road rage attack in Edinburgh that left cyclist Iain Brown with a fractured skull and brain bleed. The court accepted that the assault was severe but deemed an alternative to custody appropriate by a narrow margin. Prosecutors condemned the act as a violent, unprovoked assault on an innocent member of the public.