Scottish Gas Worker slammed by Sheriff for McGill's bus driver assault

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A Scottish Gas worker saw red and assaulted a bus driver because he wasn’t telling passengers to wear a face mask.James Rooney was travelling on a McGill's bus to his ill father’s house in Renfrew on May 29 last year when he became “extremely paranoid about catching Covid-19” as passengers onboard the bus weren’t wearing face masks.Rooney, 44, claims he asked the bus driver twice to ask passengers to wear a face mask and when he “ignored him” he saw red and grabbed him by the arm as he got off the bus. Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.

Sign up to our newsletters here. Sheriff Suhkwinder Gill slammed Rooney as he stood in the dock stating she didn’t take offences as these lightly as her father had been a bus driver.Sheriff Gill said: I’ve been told you were angry at the bus driver because he wasn’t challenging passengers for not wearing a face mask.“Can you imagine the bus driver challenging everyone?“I can fully understand why he didn’t.“My dad was a bus driver for 25 years and he used to come home and tell us of incidents like this, so I take a very dim view of matters like these.”Prosecutor Tracy Wright told the court that at the time of the incident there were other passengers on the McGill's bus and members of the public on the footpath.Ms Wright explained: “Around 5.40pm, Mr Williams was on duty as a bus driver when the accused got on the bus at Braehead Shopping Centre.“A short time later, the bus approached the stop the accused was getting of at on Inchinnan Road, Renfrew.“Rooney walked up