‘This Was Appalling’: Judge Shows No Mercy to Defendant Who Spat at Bus Driver While Hurling Slurs Over Bus Fare, Sentences Him to Prison Time 

A 39-year-old man was sentenced to less than a year in prison after a video showed him going on a slur-laden outburst at a bus driver in London, England. Michael Mongan was charged with a racially aggravated public order offense and criminal damage for an incident on a public bus on Aug. 7. According to The Independent, Mongan reportedly tried to board the bus that day but was turned away because he did not have enough money to pay for a ride. A video screenshot shows Michael Mongan yelling slurs at a bus driver. (Photo: X/@lil_doza) Mongan’s lawyer claimed that a good Samaritan had offered to pay Mongan’s bus fare, but the driver still refused to let him board. A video that circulated on social media shows an enraged Mongan in a black shirt lashing out at the driver and yelling Islamophobic and xenophobic slurs at him. “You terrorist b*****d! You Muslim, Arab b*****d!” Mongan is heard yelling in the video. Mongan then spits at a plexiglass panel the driver was sitting behind, appearing to aim at the driver’s face before deboarding the bus and continuing to yell slurs. The driver is seen waving at Mongan to approach him again...