Letter: Downhill trip with yob trio

I am writing to tell you what happened to me and a bus full of innocent passengers on the evening of April 22, and how our society is fast going downhill.

I was on my way to my boyfriend's home in Ashmore Park from my workplace in Wednesfield, catching the 559 bus near to where I work.

When I boarded the bus at Wednesfield High School at 5.15pm I could tell there was something going on as there was an awful lot of noise coming from the top deck. As many bus passengers are very aware, that is a frequent occurrence on our buses these days.

The bus travelled to its next stop and a young woman came down from the top deck in tears followed by a young man who had been bullied by some youths. They got off and these three youths, not much older than 15, I would say (the youngest said he was 13 but looked about 10), came down to get off at the stop adjacent to the Albion public house on Lichfield Road.

Even before the bus reached the stop they were opening the doors and hurling abuse at the driver. When the bus arrived at the stop they went to get off, but thought it would be hilarious to keep it from moving anywhere. The poor driver radioed the base to get assistance but didn't do more than that.

The passengers were angry and in turn each one of us on there called the police explaining the situation while they continued to torment us and hurl more abuse at the driver.

Several passengers tried to step in and take matters into their own hands but were put off by the fact that they might be armed, or that there are so many laws protecting such youths these days it wasn't worth trying to get them to leave.

We waited 30 minutes for two police cars to arrive at 5.50pm and by this time we were all extremely angry, intimidated and upset that we were held up by these youths.

All they did then was run off. I don't know if they were caught, but all our names, addresses and phone numbers were taken in case they were. I eventually arrived at my boyfriend's home at 6.10pm.

Kids these days can do what they want because they know no-one will stand up to them.

When I was their age I wouldn't have dreamt of doing such a thing. I was brought up to respect my elders – these clearly were not, and it shows, sadly, what a different society we have to live in now, very much different from the society I and older generations were brought up in.

Miss Clare Stockley, Essington, Wolverhampton.