I must re-visit an article I wrote earlier this week seeking to address the injustice meted out to a passenger who was brutally assaulted by the conductor of a route 44 minibus.

That gentleman complained of feeling unwell and subsequently died later that very day. This is an incident that is ripe for a class-action lawsuit, reasons being, Mr. Mangra was viciously attacked by this conductor who inflicted blows on him that later turned out to be life- threatening; no question about that.
The fact that the post-mortem results showed that he died of a heart attack makes their case even more airtight.The conductor bully did beat up an already sick man. But for the savage beating Mr. Mangra who might have had a pre-existing condition  would not have died. This is the naked truth of the matter.For those charlatans who’ve rushed to the defence of the conductor, absolving him of the crime, let me remind them that the mere sight of an angry man advancing menacingly towards you with an ice pick is enough cause for someone to go into cardiac arrest. If he did not touch Mr. Mangra he may have had an alibi, and that is a remote possibility, thereby releasing himself from the root cause of his death, but the naked fact of this case is, he did inflict severe  blows on his victim who died. He brutally attacked a sick man and for this he must suffer the consequences. When he approached the victim he did not do so to compliment him on his observation of the deafening noise on the bus. He approached him  as we say in Guyanese language: To shut up the expletive of a passenger who was making these comments. Well, shut him up and throw him out his bus he did  for good, because Mr. Mangra died.
I vividly remember a case of this nature taking place in the U.S. where the police wanting to arrest a known suspect made the huge mistake in carrying out that surprise raid on the wrong house. They’d rudely entered the home of a Baptist Minister of the gospel who was shocked by the whole ordeal and later died of a heart attack. The New York police had to pay out millions to the minister’s relatives in a wrongful-death lawsuit. The police carrying out a legitimate raid on the wrong premises, death was the result, the state had to pay up for their negligence.
In future, get your logistics right before you make a raid. In the Guyana case, the conductor’s action in dealing with “an irritating passenger” is to hush him up with naked aggression, cuff the daylight out of him. This type of behaviour must not be allowed in a civilised society.

My only reservation in this case is the wife of the victim leaving everything in the hands of the police. Countless airtight cases involving vehicular homicides go the route I have mentioned earlier. Therefore, I am not in the least impressed by them.
Some,if not most police cases conclude with the accused walking free due to the suspect nature of their handling of these cases. Too often valuable evidence go mysteriously missing only to turn up later at the insistence of the victim’s lawyer.
I have witnessed this in court cases in New Amsterdam. So my advice to Mrs. Mangra is to engage the services of a lawyer. The trouble is, many folks are looking at the cost to hire counsel while at the same time taking the advice of friends that “leave everything to the police” when in essence not much will be done.
Justice for Mr. Mangra will be justice for all of us who have suffered and continue to suffer at the hands of these downright out-of-place savages that work on minibuses.