Woman held for two days after insulting bus driver

A woman who called a bus driver an a****** for not letting her onto his bus without first closing a pushchair in which her two-year-old was sleeping, spent 47 hours under arrest following an altercation with the police who escorted her off the bus without her children. Ukrainian national Polina Gutshabes, 25, was charged with assaulting and resisting the police, threatening them, disobeying their orders and disturbing public peace. The incident happened at 2.30pm on Sunday in Ġorġ Borg Olivier Street, St Julian’s when Ms Gutshabes and her husband and their two children, aged two and four, boarded a bus to St Paul’s Bay. When they boarded, the driver told her that his route was a busy one and that she had to close the pushchair to make space for more people. But the woman told him her son was asleep and the pushchair could not be closed so the driver told her to leave the bus. The woman asked her for a refund of the fares but the driver refused to hand the money, prompting her to call him an a******. The driver then left the bus and went to the police station asking for assistance. When two officers got onto the bus, they asked the woman to leave but she refused. She continued...