ASK the general public to think of lowlife, scum bag professions and they'll probably come up with estate agent, double glazing salesman and insurance broker.
Mr Snape said: "I understand if police officers say, 'What's the point?' when people commit offences as serious as this and get a slap on the wrist and get anonymity so there is no way of banning this scum bag from our buses.
The attacker - 18-year-old Jordan Riley, from Thornaby - was said to have been angry when members of a group he had asked for a cigarette called him a "scum bag" and a "crack head", Teesside Crown Court heard.