A cop charged with dangerous driving broke down in tears as she told how she was “momentarily too late to react” when a young cyclist veered in front of her motor during a chase.
But Constable Kayleigh Simpson was accused of trying to be “a hero” by attempting to apprehend a violent domestic abuser, who she believed was riding the push bike, on her own.
The officer had decided to 'keep eyes' on the ‘suspect’, who was at the centre of a major police manhunt in Glenrothes, Fife, having earlier been found with a ‘kill kit’ in his car.
She followed the masked cyclist onto a footpath near Auchmuty High School, after they failed to stop when signalled to do so by her and another officer in a separate vehicle.
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