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A Calgary bus driver has returned to work more than a year after he was brutally attacked by two brothers, court heard Friday at the sentencing hearing for one of the offenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a commentary on his resilience,\u201d said prosecutor Greg Piper of the victim, Amarjit Grewal.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Piper and defence lawyer Ian McKay jointly proposed a three-year sentence plus 18 months probation for Darryl Flett, which was accepted by Justice Frederick Fisher.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Justice Fisher noted that it was an aggravating factor that the victim was a public transit operator engaged in duties at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t deserve what happened to him,\u201d said Fisher.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flett and his brother Curtis Baker Spence attacked Grewal, 67, on May 14, 2025.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Flett pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and breaching a release condition while Baker Spence pleaded guilty to robbery and breaching a release condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Baker Spence was sentenced to four years in prison in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Calgary Transit employees filled the courtroom in support of the victim.<\/p>\n
At the time of the attack both brothers were under court-ordered conditions banning them from possessing weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The attack <\/p>\n
The brothers attacked Grewal on his bus in the early morning hours of May 14, 2025 while at a stop in northwest Calgary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Video of the attack shows Baker Spence beating Grewal with a baton while Flett used a sharp-edged weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grewal used his hands and arms to shield his face and head from the attack.<\/p>\n
The beating continued as Grewal was on the ground. The lone bus passenger tried to help the driver, shielding him with a cushion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Victim’s blood found on brother <\/p>\n
After the attackers fled, Grewal called 911. About seven hours later, the brothers were arrested after they were spotted by police at a northeast McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Grewal\u2019s blood was found on Baker Spence\u2019s clothing and shoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He suffered ongoing injuries to his hand.<\/p>\n
Court heard that Baker Spence had been released from jail after serving time for crimes of violence just two weeks before his attack on Grewal.<\/p>\n
‘I wish I could go back in time’<\/p>\n
Piper noted that Baker Spence received a longer sentence\u00a0because he “appeared to be the leader.”<\/p>\n
Flett\u2019s probation conditions include a requirement he stay away from Grewal, drugs, alcohol and that he participate in treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With credit for the time he\u2019s already served, Flett has just over a year left on his sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before court ended, Flett was given the chance to speak and addressed his victim directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Grewal sir, I would like to say I’m sorry for the things that happened that night and I\u2019m very sorry I put you in danger,\u201d said Flett. \u201cI wish I could go back in time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-177755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-calgary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}