By . Nick Enoch . Last updated at 10:47 PM on 11th January 2012 . Shaun Edwards (pictured), 46, was spared jail after he admitted the 'appalling and terrifying' attack on 67-year-old Albert Finney . A road rage dentist who knocked out a pensioner's teeth . and broke his cheekbone with a single blow has been declared fit to practise following a year-long ban. Shaun Edwards, 46, was spared jail after he admitted . the 'appalling and terrifying' attack on 67-year-old Albert Finney. The . former Army major leapt out of his black BMW and issued his victim with the . chilling warning: 'If you knew who I am, you wouldn't tangle with me.' Edwards, . who at the time was running the Sneyd Dental Practice in Newcastle-under-Lyme, . Staffordshire, was handed a four-month prison sentence, suspended for two . years, when he appeared in court. He was suspended for 12 months in . January 2011 after a General Dental Council committee ruled his fitness to . practise was impaired by reason of his conviction. Lydia Barnfather, for the GDC, had told how Edwards clashed . with Mr Finney during the morning rush hour on November 30, 2009, in Festival . Park, Cobridge, Stoke. Mr Finney, a cleaning contractor, was at . the wheel of his red van when Edwards suddenly pulled out causing him to slam . on the brakes. Further down the road, Edwards' BMW ended up getting . blocked by Mr Finney, who got out of his van 'to explain', said the solicitor. Ms Barnfather said: 'Mr Edwards got out of . his vehicle and walked back to Mr Finney. 'In an appalling and terrifying moment of . loss of self-control, Mr Edwards attacked him. 'His recollection was there was a headbutt . and a punch. 'He describes a punch with his right fist . to the bottom of his left side jaw. 'He felt his nose bleeding and put a hanky . to his nose.' Edwards, a dentist and former Army major, choked back tears as he described the road rage incident in Newcastle-under-Lyme (above) as a 'terrible error' The victim exclaimed: 'Are you crazy?' and the dentist replied: . 'If you knew who I am, what I've done and what I've been through, you wouldn't . tangle with me.' Edwards was interviewed by police three days later, when he . claimed he was defending himself against Mr Finney and only went for him with a . 'girlish swing'. 'At this stage I think he is going to . assault me, or trying and assault me again,' he said. 'I put my head down and . swung at him in a non-accurate manner.' Edwards admitted inflicting grievous . bodily harm at Stoke-On-Trent Crown Court on May 26, 2010. In addition to . the suspended sentence, he was ordered to pay Mr Finney £7,474 . compensation, plus £1,200 court costs. He was also ordered to complete . 220 hours of unpaid work. The married father-of-two, who grew up in . Cannock, Staffordshire, and qualified in Liverpool, choked back tears as he described . the affair as a 'terrible error'. At the initial hearing, he said: 'I . totally overreacted. 'The shame I've brought on myself, the . practice, the profession, the remorse is almost overwhelming at times. 'I'd like to apologise to Mr Finney if he . was here. 'If I can offer reassurance that it won't . happen again, I'd like to do so now. 'It is a very, very painful experience. I . would not like to be here again.'
Ex-Army major Shaun Edwards clashed with 67-year-old during morning rush hour .
Edwards given four-month jail term, suspended for two years .
By . Nick Enoch . Last updated at 10:47 PM on 11th January 2012 . Shaun Edwards (pictured), 46, was spared jail after he admitted the 'appalling and terrifying' attack on 67-year-old Albert Finney . A road rage dentist who knocked out a pensioner's teeth . and broke his cheekbone with a single blow has been declared fit to practise following a year-long ban. Shaun Edwards, 46, was spared jail after he admitted . the 'appalling and terrifying' attack on 67-year-old Albert Finney. The . former Army major leapt out of his black BMW and issued his victim with the . chilling warning: 'If you knew who I am, you wouldn't tangle with me.' Edwards, . who at the time was running the Sneyd Dental Practice in Newcastle-under-Lyme, . Staffordshire, was handed a four-month prison sentence, suspended for two . years, when he appeared in court. He was suspended for 12 months in . January 2011 after a General Dental Council committee ruled his fitness to . practise was impaired by reason of his conviction. Lydia Barnfather, for the GDC, had told how Edwards clashed . with Mr Finney during the morning rush hour on November 30, 2009, in Festival . Park, Cobridge, Stoke. Mr Finney, a cleaning contractor, was at . the wheel of his red van when Edwards suddenly pulled out causing him to slam . on the brakes. Further down the road, Edwards' BMW ended up getting . blocked by Mr Finney, who got out of his van 'to explain', said the solicitor. Ms Barnfather said: 'Mr Edwards got out of . his vehicle and walked back to Mr Finney. 'In an appalling and terrifying moment of . loss of self-control, Mr Edwards attacked him. 'His recollection was there was a headbutt . and a punch. 'He describes a punch with his right fist . to the bottom of his left side jaw. 'He felt his nose bleeding and put a hanky . to his nose.' Edwards, a dentist and former Army major, choked back tears as he described the road rage incident in Newcastle-under-Lyme (above) as a 'terrible error' The victim exclaimed: 'Are you crazy?' and the dentist replied: . 'If you knew who I am, what I've done and what I've been through, you wouldn't . tangle with me.' Edwards was interviewed by police three days later, when he . claimed he was defending himself against Mr Finney and only went for him with a . 'girlish swing'. 'At this stage I think he is going to . assault me, or trying and assault me again,' he said. 'I put my head down and . swung at him in a non-accurate manner.' Edwards admitted inflicting grievous . bodily harm at Stoke-On-Trent Crown Court on May 26, 2010. In addition to . the suspended sentence, he was ordered to pay Mr Finney £7,474 . compensation, plus £1,200 court costs. He was also ordered to complete . 220 hours of unpaid work. The married father-of-two, who grew up in . Cannock, Staffordshire, and qualified in Liverpool, choked back tears as he described . the affair as a 'terrible error'. At the initial hearing, he said: 'I . totally overreacted. 'The shame I've brought on myself, the . practice, the profession, the remorse is almost overwhelming at times. 'I'd like to apologise to Mr Finney if he . was here. 'If I can offer reassurance that it won't . happen again, I'd like to do so now. 'It is a very, very painful experience. I . would not like to be here again.'
a four-month prison sentence, suspended for two . had told how Edwards clashed . with Mr Finney during the morning rush hour on November 30,