I lost my right leg after a maniac bus driver ran me over – he’s ruined my life
A PENSIONER who lost his right leg after a maniac bus driver ran him over has told how the horror ordeal ruined his life.
Michael McFadyen, 74, hasn’t been able to go hill-walking or skiing since being attacked by crazed Allan Thomson, 64.
And he wonders if the trauma of his ordeal was to blame for him losing his wife Margaret and daughter Iona, 46, in separate tragedies two years later.
The grandad, who uses a £53,000 prosthetic leg, said: “I’d never have thought that getting on the bus that night would lead to all this.
“I just wanted to get home. I have not been on a bus since. This has wrecked my life.”
Michael, of Aberdeen, told how he has little memory of the October 2018 assault — despite being plagued by flashbacks.
It was only last week when CCTV footage was screened to jurors that he witnessed the full brutality.
It showed burly Thomson shoving Michael out of the bus door then running the single-decker over him.
Following the thug’s conviction at the city’s sheriff court, Michael said: “It was difficult seeing it all.
“I was in shock. I remember the wheels going over me.”
By-standers in the city’s Dyce district heard the OAP’s screams of agony.
He was raced to hospital, where medics treated devastating wounds that left him unrecognisable.
They then had to amputate his leg below the knee. Michael then had to give up hobbies such as hill-walking and walking his dog while waiting six years for Thomson to come to trial.
He admitted: “This has been a nightmare hanging over me.”
But he told court officials to take down screens that would’ve shielded him from his attacker — who has been warned he could be jailed when he is sentenced next month.
Ex-engineer Michael revealed: “I wanted to see him. But we didn’t lock eyes or anything like that.”
A jury saw through Thomson’s claims he acted in self-defence after being threatened.
Michael, who got £425,000 compo from bus firm First, said: “It’s not in my nature to fight. I’m a big feartie.
“I just want to get on with my life and draw a line under everything that has happened.”