Shocking moment jailed Sheffield driver Arshad Mohammed attacks bus with sledgehammer in city centre 'rampage'

Arshad Mohammed, of Nether Edge, was jailed for 50 months at Sheffield Crown Court for the crime spree on July 19 last year.

The 50-year-old drove his black Kia Sedona people-carrier up the wrong side of London Road, overtaking other cars at speed, before stopping in front of a Number 43 bus and jumping out with a long-handled sledgehammer.

Mohammed boarded the bus and swung the sledgehammer to smash a glass panel, then took a fire extinguisher back to his car.

‘Shouting and ranting,’ Mohammed then began swinging at a side window, ‘making two bull's-eye type smashes’ before shattering it.

He also shouted racist abuse at the driver.

Minutes later, on Abbeydale Road, a trainee driving instructor in a Citroen Cactus was hit head-on’ when Mohammed reversed into him.

“He got out and was waving a sledgehammer," the witness said in a statement.

"He reversed and I had to run to get out of the way. He reversed the whole way down Abbeydale Road.

“There were lots of cars on the road because it was school pick-up time. He looked like he was on drugs."

Mohammed pleaded guilty to affray, possessing a sledgehammer and theft of a fire extinguisher but denied dangerous driving and driving while disqualified.

He was banned from driving for four years, in August 2018.