School bus driver guilty of killing Ajman pupil is jailed for six months

A school bus driver found guilty of killing a pupil in Ajman in February has been sentenced to six months in prison.

The pupil, a 12-year-old girl from Yemen called Sheikha Hassan, had got off the school bus near her home in the Hamidiya area of Ajman after finishing the day at Umm Ammar School.

After alighting the bus, she walked around the front of the vehicle towards the pavement. The driver did not see her and set off for his next stop,…