Driver faces jail for mowing down armed cop

A Mercedes driver who ploughed into an armed police officer and left him fearing for his life is facing jail. Pc Lewis Crowder was trying to arrest Aydin Altun, 26, when he ‘gunned forward at speed’ in Tottenham, north London on 29 October last year. PC Crowder, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, and two colleagues, stopped a black Mercedes and ordered Aydin and another man out of the car. But Altun tried to escape by driving at PC Crowder, who…