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‘Please don’t hit my daddy...’ Transit workers gather outside court as bail hearing for man charged in bus driver attack is postponed by Sheila Reynolds
A GROUP of bus drivers was at Surrey Provincial Court Friday morning for the bail hearing – which was delayed until April 22 – of Sean Tyler Quaye, a 25-year-old Surrey man charged in a vicious, unprovoked attack on a Coast Mountain Bus driver last month. One-and-a-half-year-old Abbigail Hartman and her step-dad Brandon McInroy, who’s a bus driver, were among the group, with Abbigail wearing a T-shirt that read: “Please don’t hit my daddy...” McInroy said he and his girlfriend brought the toddler to show that many transit workers have families and just want to be safe on the job. He was among 40 or so drivers who showed up to
Branson Sanders, 20, was killed in Surrey and his charred body was found in Burnaby. His killers, Shakib Shakib and Brandon Nandan were sentenced to six years in jail on Thursday (April 10). PHOTO SUBMITTED
court Friday to support their fellow injured transit worker. Police say at approximately 8 p.m. on March 26, the 341 bus to Guildford picked up a man and woman on 72 Avenue at 132 Street. Within minutes, the man punched the operator in the face before jumping off the bus. The bus was travelling at approximately 30 km/h and pulling into the left-turn lane at 144 Street at the time of the assault. Despite having received a severe blow to the face which caused broken nose and facial bones, profuse bleeding and impaired vision, the driver managed to bring the bus to a stop and open the doors, allowing the attacker to leave. See DRIVERS / Page 3
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One-and-a-half-year-old Abbigail Hartman supports her bus driver stepdad Brandon McInroy by wearing a T-shirt during a gathering of drivers at Surrey Provincial Court on Friday.
Six years in jail for pair who killed man, burned body ‘It’s kind of lenient,’ mother of victim Branson Sanders says by Sheila Reynolds THE FAMILY and friends of a 20-year-
old man who was killed in Surrey before his body was dumped and burned in Burnaby feel his killers have gotten away with murder. Brandon Nandan and Shakib
Shakib were handed six-year jail sentences Thursday in Surrey Provincial Court after admitting last year to killing their acquaintance, Branson Sanders in 2011. “It’s kind of lenient, I think, for what really happened,” said Sanders’ mom, Hannele Sairanen. “I guess we
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can murder people and destroy the crime scene and it’s okay.” Nandan and Shakib, who are now both 21, were initially charged with murder, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter late last year. See DEATH / Page 3
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