Fined bus driver now charged with assaulting passenger

Josh Harry

 A bus driver, who was fined following a viral video of him snatching a passenger’s phone after she complained of noise nuisance has denied assault and damage to property charges.

Josh Harry of Lot 28 Back Road, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, who is also a butcher, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court when he denied the charges read to him by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. It is alleged that on April 12 at Houston, Greater Georgetown, he unlawfully assaulted Odella Peroune and unlawfully and maliciously damaged a cellphone screen valued $40,000, property of Peroune.