Arriva North West - Speke Depot (Old Closed Thread)

[Lynx]

RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot
The grey area is determining if the driver was acting in self defence, if the offender posed no threat to driver after damaging the bus and the driver has gone at him then it doesn't constitute self defence and would be common assault. If the driver has attempted to stop the cyclist whilst he's been damaging the bus then the driver is well within his rights to use reasonable force to prevent loss or damage, the fine line is if restraining via the means of a headlock constitutes reasonable force.

All very grey really, hopefully it will all be dealt with internally and that Arriva's own investigation is as far as it goes.