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‘was provoked into the attack
and that he had pulled a knife
on bus driver Nigel O’ Neil in

A 35-YEAR-OLD Vancouver _., self-defense.

man was sentenced to’a year
in jail Fhursday for attacking.
a Pacific Coach Lines bus
and its driver in November in
West Vancouver.

Leonard Gauthier was

sentenced for assault and abusive, according to O’Neil,

received a further six-month
sentence, to be served con-.
currently, on a charge of
committing mischief by caus-
ing more than $800 damage
to the bus. —
' Judge R. D. Grandison, in
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: .Gawithier -was.ejected from
the “:Vancouver-to-Nanaimo
bus by O’Neil at a West Van-
couver bus stop, after the two
had argued.

Gauthier had become

after being told that he could
not sit in the bus seat located
. directly behind the driver.
-O’Neil testified. that he
threw Gauthier. off the bus

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O’Neil said he discovered
he had been nicked on the
chest by the knife later that

evening when he arrived at.

his Nanaimo home.

Gauthier was arrested after
he telephoned West Van-
couver police to complain
about being ejected from the
bus.

A statement from Gauthier
said he became upset becausé
he thought he was being vic-
timized by the bus driver.

Gauthier interupted his
sentencing several times’ to
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