"Your brain doesn't catch up that quick. You're still trying to understand what's happened," Kaszas said."
"I was screaming, telling him to stay away from me," Kaszas said, adding: "His face was bad news. It was very, very scary at that point."
"He kept the guy back," she said."
"I'm a single mum. I'm the only one my daughter has," she said. "If something happens to me, it happens to her."
Katalin Kaszas was terrified when a man who had not paid his fare snatched her necklace as she boarded the 206 bus in north-west London. Driver Mark Hehir chased the passenger, struck him in self-defence after the man attempted to hit him, and returned with Kaszas's necklace. Hehir left the bus to pursue the thief and knocked the passenger unconscious. Metroline dismissed Hehir for gross misconduct over the June 2024 incident; an employment tribunal upheld the dismissal. Kaszas, a 46-year-old single mother, is extremely grateful and fears other drivers will not step off buses to protect passengers. Hehir was invited to meet shadow justice minister Dr Kieran Mullan at Parliament.
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