Susan Currall told her victim to ‘go cry to your mummy’ after the assault (Picture: SWNS)

A furious woman with a grudge against cyclists has been convicted of throwing dog waste at a rider.

Susan Currall swung an open bag of her dog’s excrement at an academic because she was fed up with cyclists ‘hurtling’ towards her at high speeds.

The 75-year-old then taunted the victim and told him to ‘go cry to your mummy’, calling him a ‘big bully’.

Currall admitted assault by beating and was ordered to pay £25 in dry cleaning costs.


After the hearing, Michael Ramage, who was subject to the ‘pretty unpleasant’ attack, said: ‘I’m not physically intimidated. I know I won’t suffer any serious injury but the mental anguish with having to deal with the encounter, that’s what it’s really all about.



‘I have encountered her with my kids and it’s upsetting for them.’

The incident happened on a path for pedestrians and cyclists in Trumpington, Cambridge, on September 12. Currall was walking her dog at the time.

Monica Lentin, defending Currall, said the 40-year-old victim ‘provoked’ her client by cycling too close to her.

She added: ‘You get lots of young men with powerful bikes riding at speed without any conscience that older people can’t get out of the way easily.

‘In the olden days, a man on a bike would have got off and let her through.

‘The council seems to be pursuing a policy that bicycles are king in Cambridge and have rights over everyone else.’

Currall, who worked for the British embassy in the US, was also given a conditional discharge for 12 months and was told to pay £100 costs by Cambridge magistrates.

She has no previous convictions but two cautions for common assault and criminal damage from 2007.