"Ms Kaszas, 46, said that she felt so guilty after learning Mr Hehir had lost his job as a result of confronting the thief. She told the Press Association: When I was getting on the bus, a young man was getting off on the front door. He was running past me, I thought he was going to push me off the bus. He just grabbed my necklace and ran with it."
"He looked very, very shifty, I did not feel comfortable at all. I would say I even felt threatened, so I was backing away, and that's when Mark realised that something is not right here and he stepped in. I don't know where I was in my mind, I saw a punch flying, a guy hitting the floor, there was some blood and then I started to call the police."
"Asked for her reaction to hearing Mr Hehir had been sacked by Metroline, Ms Kaszas said: I think it was unjust. I don't think (Mr Hehir) deserved that. If he doesn't do what he did, anything could have happened to me. I felt so guilty. I felt that it was my fault I caused all this. Meanwhile, Justice Secretary David Lammy told the House of Commons on Tuesday that Mr Hehir is of course a hero and deserves our support."
More than 130,000 people signed a petition calling for a bus driver to be reinstated after he chased a thief and recovered a passenger's stolen necklace. The passenger, Katalin Kaszas, described being grabbed and seeing the driver, Mark Hehir, run after the attacker and return the necklace. The thief later returned, Kaszas said, and the driver intervened as she felt threatened; she described seeing a punch land, a man fall and blood before she called the police. Metroline dismissed Hehir after the incident. Kaszas said the sacking felt unjust and she felt guilty. Justice Secretary David Lammy described Hehir as a hero and said he deserved support.
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