Road rage thug who called Brazilian a ‘monkey’ was 4×4 driver

A driver who attacked a courier in a road rage incident and called him a ‘monkey’ has been spared jail to continue caring for his terminally-ill mother. Martin Petherbridge, 57, had been driving his black Mitsubishi Shogun along Hollybush Hill Road, in Wanstead, on his way to visit his elderly mother at Whipps Cross Hospital on 10 February this year. He became embroiled in a row with 36-year-old courier Lucas Elias who he claimed cut him up as they approached…