A Vitebsk resident received five years in prison for attacking a trolleybus driver and conductor

May 15, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A Vitebsk resident has been sentenced to five years in prison for attacking a trolleybus driver and conductor, Andrey Mlechko, assistant prosecutor of the Oktyabrsky District of Vitebsk, told a BELTA correspondent. In June last year, on Frunze Avenue, the driver of a trolleybus that had stopped due to a malfunction asked passengers to leave the cabin. All passengers complied with the driver's request, except for a young man born in 1989 who was intoxicated. The guy started demanding his fare back, ignoring the possibility of continuing his journey on the next trolleybus in such a case and the explanations of the conductor and the driver. In a fit of youthful bravado, he beat up the driver. The female conductor, who tried to break up the fight, also got hurt. Literally a month later, the same guy, under a flimsy pretext, also being intoxicated, severely beat a man standing at a public transport stop. For malicious hooliganism and causing grievous bodily harm, the young man, who had not previously been brought to criminal responsibility, was sentenced to 5 years and one month of imprisonment in a strict regime colony. His accomplice, who participated in the fight on the trolleybus, was sentenced to one and a half years of restriction of liberty without being sent to a correctional institution. The sentence has entered into legal force. -0-