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A Deliveroo driver who was furious about getting two parking tickets outside his local McDonald’s pursued a vendetta against the police officer who arrested him for being unable to provide the documentation for his moped.

David Morton, from County Durham, started the escalating chain of aggressive behaviour back in April, after parking his motorbike on double yellow lines outside the McDonald’s in Newcastle.

When he saw a civil enforcement officer writing the ticket he reacted aggressively, swearing at the officer calling him a "dirty piggy eater" and an "Anglican worshipper”.

He then threw the ticket at the officer and drove off.

The next day, Morton was again parked illegally outside the restaurant.

He returned to his moped to find two officers writing tickets and he told them to "issue a ticket and f*** off" before leaving the scene.

But minutes later he decided to come back for more. He spat on one of the female police officer's legs and then spat in the face of the other.

He drove off a second time, raising his middle finger at the two officers as he did so.

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A few days later, Norton was arrested for two common assaults and a religiously aggravated public order offence. He reportedly laughed when he was shown the officers’ body-cam footage of the incident.

The following week he appeared in front of a magistrates’ court. He pleaded guilty to the two common assaults but initially entered a not guilty plea for the religiously aggravated public order offence. He later changed his plea for that offence to guilty.

PC Ramsey, one of the officers who arrested Morton, was in court that day to give evidence.

It was at this point that Morton began his bizarre revenge plot. He started leaving messages on the ‘tell us something’ page of Northumbria Police’s website.

Prosecutor Michael Bunch told the court that Morton left the messages under a false name designed to give the impression that the writer was a Muslim.

He made reference to terror attacks in London and Manchester as well as making threatening remarks about the police officer’s children.

He also wrote "Wish PC Ramsey would die of cancer.”

Matters came to a head a few weeks later when Morton sent a parcel to Northumbria Police "containing an abusive letter and also human faeces marked for the attention of PC Ramsey".

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Tony Cornberg, defending, told the court that Morton felt “mistreated and victimised” because the police had destroyed the moped.

Morton had claimed the bike had been left to him by his father but he had failed to provide any documentation to prove his ownership.

Morton pleaded guilty to two counts of common assault, a religiously aggravated public order offence, sending prohibited or other articles through the post and sending of malicious communication.

Judge Earl described Morton’s decision to send a letter and faeces as “pathetic,” saying: "It simply doesn’t live on the same level of human behaviour, of decent human behaviour”.

Judge Earl sentence Morton to seven months, suspended for 18 months.

He was also made subject of an electronically monitored curfew and 36 days rehabilitation requirements and a restraining order preventing him from contacting PC Ramsey.

He was also ordered to pay £200 compensation to the officer whose face he spat in. Deliveroo got in touch with Daily Star online to stress that Morton no longer works for the company, and is unlikely to have been on a Deliveroo journey at the time the offences were committed.