Driver shuts Jewish man inside bus

A 52-year-old Orthodox Jewish man said he faced anti-Semitic abuse from a bus driver who shut him inside the vehicle for about an hour.

David Abraham said after he boarded the 149 bus in Stoke Newington Road, Hackney, at 13 35 (1.35 p.m.) on Monday 27th October, he accidentally dropped his bank card inside the driver’s cab.

Mr Abraham said the bus driver then refused to give the card back to him, telling him, ‘you look like a Mossad agent’, before calling the Metropolitan Police.

Transport for London (TfL) said the driver’s behaviour was ‘unacceptable’ and that he had been suspended while an investigation takes place.