"When I was getting on the bus, a young man was getting off on the front door. He was running past me, I thought he was going to push me off the bus. He just grabbed my necklace and ran with it. 'I was like, 'Why is he there, where is my necklace? Oh damn'. So that's when I realised what just happened. I saw Mark running out, running after the guy."
"He looked very, very shifty, I did not feel comfortable at all. I would say I even felt threatened, so I was backing away, and that's when Mark realised that something is not right here and he stepped in. I don't know where I was in my mind, I saw a punch flying, a guy hitting the floor, there was some blood and then I started to call the police."
A 62-year-old Metroline bus driver chased and recovered a passenger's stolen necklace, then confronted the thief when the assailant returned to the bus. The passenger, aged 46, described feeling threatened and witnessing a violent scuffle that left someone on the floor and bleeding before she called police. Metroline dismissed the driver and an employment tribunal upheld the decision. The passenger expressed guilt and called the sacking unjust. Justice Secretary David Lammy called the driver a hero and said he was following the case, while a petition supporting the driver has gathered more than 125,000 signatures.
Read at Irish Independent
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