Bus Conductor Convicted For Stabbing Rival To Death In Dispute Over Passengers
A bus conductor who stabbed a rival to death in a New Year’s Eve dispute over passengers has been convicted of murder.
Roland Bornstorph was found guilty in the Home Circuit Court earlier this week for stabbing bus conductor Kenroy Smith three times – twice in the chest — at the Darling Street bus terminus on December 31, 2014.
A jury deliberated for two hours before returning a unanimous verdict in his murder trial.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 3 by Justice Vivienne Harris.
Both Bornstorph and Smith worked on buses that operate between Kingston and Ocho Rios, in St Ann.
Prosecutors Andrea Martin Swaby and Rosheide Spence relied on the testimony of an off-duty police sergeant who was a passenger on Smith’s bus to prove their case.
The sergeant testified that Smith refused to allow the bus to leave the terminus, insisting that he would not do so until there were passengers filling up the aisle seats.
He said he and other passengers exited the bus because of the delay and boarded Bornstorph’s bus, setting off an argument between the two conductors.
The policeman said the argument escalated into a “tussle” between the two men, causing him to separate them.
He testified that he reprimanded Bornstorph and instructed him to board his bus and depart for Ocho Rios.
The off-duty sergeant gave evidence that Bornstorph walked away in the direction of his bus, but said within a minute there was a loud commotion in the direction of the area where other passengers had taken Smith.
He said he saw the two conductors again tussling and, on his approach, Smith released his hold on Bornstorph and raised his hands in the air.
The police sergeant said it was at this point that Bornstorph stabbed Smith twice “in the region of the chest.”
He was pronounced dead at hospital.
Someone lost their life so senselessly. Bus not even belong to him and him teck a man life fi what him can never own, neither the passengers nor the bus. May my path never cross such ppl in this lifetime or the next. May God protect us all from an angry stupid person.
I hope the family suing the bus owner and whatever insurance (fingers cross there was insurance).
The govornment try to legitimize dem by having dem wear uniforms and that still no good. They have no manners or regard for the lives of the idiots they pack into the vehicle like sardine.
Sue yes!!! Weh di driver did deh fi call off him guard dog??? if the driver ah the owner fi di bus him shoulda put ah stop to it from long time. Set an example yes, suh the drivers them can take responsibility for the conductors action instead of sitting back and ah behave money hungry.
@phantom why she the bus owner !!! Unnu just hungry, bus owner trying to make a living it’s the conductor that fucked up
Its not a matter of being hungry, its about setting an example so that the bus owners have decent people working for them. Where was the bus owner when all of this did tek place??? he was right there cock up inna di bus ah wait fi di conductor fi push di badness suh him can get ah full bus