Fight over passenger lands bus driver behind bars

Minibus driver Monel McIntyre was yesterday sentenced to three months imprisonment for assaulting a ‘tout’ who attempted to lure one of his passengers away.

McIntyre pleaded guilty to the assault on Jermaine Christiani to cause him actual bodily harm when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Police Prosecutor Corporal Simone Payne stated that McIntyre and Christiani, who were known to each other, were arguing over a passenger in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market when the