Elliott Tittensor: Shameless' Carl Gallagher used BMW ''as a weapon'' after mobile phone row

Shameless star Elliott Tittensor has been condemned by a top judge for loutish behaviour which left a young man close to death.

Tittensor, who played Carl Gallagher in the comedy series, used his brand new BMW as a weapon against trainee plumber Oliver Flint and drove away, leaving him gravely injured in the road.

Ever since a row over a mobile phone ended in tragedy, the actor had engaged in an orgy of self-justification, claiming he acted in self-defence.

Mr Justice Edis said Tittensor, 25, had deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by Flint during the 2010 confrontation in Kentish Town, north London.

After the incident, the actor had even resorted to inventing a claim that he believed Flint had a knife.

It was the plumber, not Tittensor, of Heywood, Lancashire, who was in grave and immediate danger of being killed as the actor swerved to throw him off his bonnet.

Flint started the row outside a McDonalds restaurant after Tittensor twice refused to let him borrow his mobile phone.

But the judge said: What followed was, I believe, a loutish shouting match in a public street between two men who were behaving badly.

Scene: Mr Flint tended to after attack

Although Flint had been threatening and intimidating - banging his fist on the BMWs bonnet - that in no way justified the actor using the car as a weapon.

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Elliott Tittensor: Shameless' Carl Gallagher used BMW ''as a weapon'' after mobile phone row