Police are now contacting two elderly retirees who have been accused of setting dangerous traps for cyclists travelling in their vicinity during these lockdown times.
This was put in place after a mountain biker Nathan Cartwright recently found a trail blocked with rocks and branches. The duo is consisted of former parish councillor Anna Hacket-Pain, and retired teacher Wendy McLachlan, both 62, was actually there on the spot, giving lectures about why the bikers should have stayed within home. Cartwright argued that he had every right to travel there since it was only a mile from his own home too, and that the two ladies had no business sticking up themselves too, as residents from separate households are forbidden to coalesce. The video that he took of the incident went viral, and his father have officially made a claimant to the local police.
The police was sent out to instruct these women that primarily it was very dangerous of them to install such obstacles in the pathway.
The locals in the area have, understandably, been very tense during these measures taking place, as more tourists have come down to the Lake District and Cornwall, and have done their best to ward off customers. According to local media, Nathan, who lives with his father and NHS nurse mother Jennifer, both 38, in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, last night said he was shocked to find two respectable older women working so hard to stop him and his bike.
The incident happened in woods on the Bolton Estate in Preston-under-Scar near Leyburn.
In the video, the women stop the lad, and then when asked if they did all this to stop tourists, they are caught saying: ‘Yes we did.
’ Nathan said on an interview: ‘I remained calm to try to sort the situation out. I was surprised to see who it was who was doing it – I assumed it would be someone younger, judging by the weight of some of the rocks and branches.’ He said he has had informal permission to cycle there.
His father said the obstacles had been laid in hard-to-see places and claimed the women could have caused a serious accident.
Mr Cartwright said: ‘They were setting traps to harm mountain bikers.
’ Mrs Hacket-Pain confirmed she had spoken to police and said the matter ‘is being dealt with through the appropriate channels’. Refusing to discuss the ‘traps’, she said: ‘Wendy and I met coincidentally in the woods that day – we were socially distancing.
’ Asked about the incident, Mrs McLachlan said: ‘I don’t think that is something I want to comment on, thank you.’ North Yorkshire Police said they had been contacted ‘about obstructions put on a track popular with walkers and cyclists.
It was believed these items could cause injury or damage to bikes’.
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