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Bus driver jailed for three months for assaulting conductor
Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton sent a strong message to persons employed within the transport system yesterday when she sentenced a minibus driver to three months’ imprisonment for assaulting a conductor.
Odel Macintyre
Odel MacIntyre was charged with assault causing actual bodily harm. The police said that on May 29, last, at the Stabroek Market, MacIntyre assaulted Jermaine Christiani.
The prosecutor stated that on the day in question, at the Stabroek Market, the victim and the defendant ended up in an argument over a passenger. In the process of that argument the defendant gave the conductor several cuffs to the mouth which resulted in his teeth getting damaged.
The matter was reported to the police mobile unit at the market. MacIntyre was later arrested, told of the offence and charged.
Christiani’s medical report was presented to the court and it showed that one of his teeth was flaked as a result of the incident.
MacIntyre told the court that he had three female passengers in the minibus. He said he was the only one on the park and Christiani sought to take a passenger out of his vehicle. He said he told the conductor that he should not do that but he persisted. He said that the man sought to take the lady’s bag out of his bus.
The driver continued that the conductor was the first to assault him since he had received a push. He said he retaliated by cuffing the conductor in the mouth.
That evidence was not before the court. The Magistrate however spoke about the continued confusion at the city’s bus parks. She said that the incident was no reason for the assault. The driver was sentenced to three months in jail.
The Magistrate emphasized that with the chaos occurring at the various bus parks it was time the minibus operators learn to conduct themselves and as such, she told the conductor to spread the word about the sentencing.
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