A ROAD rage thug was caught out by his spit.

Sam Cox was brought before court after a DNA match from his salvia that he tried to spit at the terrified motorist.

Cox, 22, had jumped on the bonnet of a car and began kicking the windscreen at the Whitebirk roundabout for junction six of the M65.

Blackburn magistrates were told that Cox also shouted racist abuse at the ‘terrified’ car driver Kamran Saddique, who was ‘trapped’ in between two lorries.

The court heard the road rage incident had been sparked by manoeuvres at an earlier set of traffic lights.

Cox, of Sorrell Road, Nuneaton, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated criminal damage. He was made subject to community supervision for 18 months with a condition he attends the Calm programme, pay £400 compensation and £65 costs.

John Wood, prosecuting, said Kamran Saddique had left the motorway and was stopped at lights on the roundabout when he became aware of two lorries which appeared to be travelling in convoy. He passed both lories but as he came to the next set of traffic lights one of them pulled across the front of him and the other came up close behind.

“He had nowhere to go and was very frightened about what was going to happen next,” said Mr Wood.

He said Cox got out of the passenger side of the lorry in front and after jumping on the bonnet and kicking the windscreen he kicked a wing mirror and tried to spit through an open window.

Police used a sample of the saliva to get a DNA match with Cox.

Emma Morrissey, defending, previously told the court Cox claimed the car had cut across the lorry he was a passenger in causing the driver to brake hard.

“My client was thrown forward and accepts he was angry about what had happened,” said Miss Morrissey. “They pursued the car to the next set of lights and he behaved in a totally unacceptable way. He does say that he is not a racist. ”