(live-PR.com) - LONDON (AP) - The wife of former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has been ordered to pay compensation after running into a parking warden and driving off with the inspector pinned to the windshield, British newspapers reported.
The 2005 confrontation began after Michelle Walker issued Thanaa Hussain a ticket for illegally parking her car, Britain's Daily Mail and the Surrey Comet reported.
Hussain called Walker a bully, stepped into her Audi and stomped on the gas _ throwing her onto the hood for a 20-second ride at about 10-15 mph (16-24 kph), the warden was quoted by the Surrey Comet on Wednesday as saying.
«I assumed she would stop the car but she didn't,» Walker was quoted by the Comet as saying. «I asked her if she was trying to kill me.
Hussain denied the accusation, saying Walker dove onto the vehicle to stop her from getting away.
«I tried to reason with her but she would not listen,» Hussain told the Daily Mail. «I got in the car and drove away, but as I drove off she threw herself at the windscreen. ... The whole experience has been very upsetting.
The Allawi family, some of whom live in southwest London, could not immediately be reached for comment. A spokesman for Allawi in Amman, Jordan, refused to discuss the issue, saying it was a family matter.

The court ruled that Hussain, 49, must pay more than 1,000 pounds (US$2,000; ¤1,400) in fines and compensation and cannot get back behind the wheel until she completes a new driver's test.
Hussain told the Daily Mail she intends to appeal the judgment.
Ayad Allawi, a former exile who was once a member of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, became postwar Iraq's first prime minister in 2004 at the head of an interim government. He has since left the country, but remains active in Iraqi politics.