Thug knocks dad's teeth out in shocking attack after neighbour honks horn at him

Mobile phone footage captured by the victim’s terrified wife shows Rupinder Dhillon squaring up to former neighbour Raj Thapur

This shocking video shows a dad-of-three being punched by a neighbour in a road-rage attack while driving his kids to school.

This mobile phone footage captured by the victim’s terrified wife shows Rupinder Dhillon squaring up to former neighbour Raj Thapur, who had ‘honked his horn’ at him.

The incident happened as the dad drove his children to school in Great Barr, Birmingham.

Dhillon, now of Sutton Coldfield, punched Mr Thaper in the mouth during the incident on February 5 - knocking out his front tooth.

The 35-year-old pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm at Sandwell Magistrates Court on Wednesday, reports the Birmingham Mail .

The scene from a video showing a fight on the school run

He was also found guilty of assaulting Mrs Thaper by the court, because he tried to knock her mobile phone from her hand as she filmed the incident.

The court heard how the Thaper family was travelling behind Dhillon’s car as they drove their three young sons to school.

The pair had both stopped at a junction between Hob House Close and the Old Walsall Road when the fight broke out at around 8am.

Dhillon alleged that Mr Thaper had ‘honked his horn’ at him several times and he had stopped.

The altercation quickly escalated between the two men, who had a history of a neighbourly dispute, as Mr Thaper’s three young boys sat in the back seat of the car.

“There was a lot of swearing going on,” Mrs Thaper told the court. “My children were terrified in the back.

“They could not believe what was happening to their daddy.”

Footage shows the shocking brawl, which was stopped after witnesses intervened.

Dhillon, a managing director of a financial services company, can then be seen getting back into his car and driving away.

In defence Dhillon said: “It is regrettable in hindsight, it escalating in the way that it did. With the bad blood over the years it did reach boiling point. It’s unfortunate that we’re here today.”

Magistrates ordered a pre-sentencing report and the trial was adjourned until August 12.