In the early hours of 17 September 2020, three officers were on patrol when they spotted a Ford Kuga parked in Common Road, Blue Bell Hill. The officers stopped and spoke to the driver, Eglant Llleshi, and a woman in the passenger seat. Suspecting the pair to be in possession of controlled drugs, they were detained for a search and the passenger was escorted from the vehicle.
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Lleshi became uncooperative and suddenly started his car and reversed into one of the officers. A second constable who had been standing next to the vehicle was also injured as she tried to restrain Lleshi through an open door. Lleshi ran over the first officer a second time, before driving in a dangerous manner from the scene.