Bus driver sacked OMG

[King Billy]

I agree that if you chase someone with a weapon, with no intention of arresting them, but purely to mete out punsihment, then that is unlawful.

Then there are degrees of what is unreasonable.
For instance, chasing, or reacting to a criminal with a hand brush (as in the jewelry heist), is hardly going to be in the public interest to prosecute.
Chasing a criminal with a hammer, baseball bat or scaffold pole would merit more serious consideration.
And finally chasing someone with a firearm would undoubtedly result in a prosecution.

 

[morqthana]

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[King Billy]

I think the bar for reasonable force is quite high.
Even locking a suspect in a room to detain them is legally risky.

In the UK, locking a suspect in a room while waiting for the police to arrive can be lawful, but it is extremely risky and must meet strict legal criteria. It is generally treated as a "citizen's arrest" or lawful detention, which is permitted under Section 24A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE).
If your actions do not strictly adhere to these legal requirements, you could be guilty of false imprisonment, kidnapping, or assault.

 

[morqthana]

Unless the thief, who earlier, may have voluntarily surrendered the stolen property, was approaching in a conciliatory attitude and expressing his regret.

He may have been. IMO it would be an odd thing to do, rather than leg it, as there had to have been a fair chance that one of the passengers had called the police. But he may have been.

In the driver's shoes I would have been very wary of him, and hypervigilant.

 

[King Billy]

I would agree there are a lot of issues about the whole episode that are odd and almost contradictory.
Some have already been mentioned in this forum and some haven't, e.g. how come the driver retrieved the necklace so easily, assumingly without damage? Was it damaged? The age and mentality of the thief is unknown. Would a thief of sound mind returned to the scene of the initial crime, probably being aware that the police had been called? The driver had already overpowered the thief once when he retrieved the necklace, was the additional force really warranted? We know the bus driver was a bit impulsive.
I think without the full facts we're just speculating.