“I’M scared that one day he won’t come home.”

The words of Sue Sanderson, whose bus driver husband has been subjected to a series of sickening attacks during his 17-year career with Wilts & Dorset.

The latest came in Turlin Moor on Saturday night and Sue fears that Kevin, 57, could end up paying a big price for simply doing his job.

The first – and worst – incident happened in December 1995, when Kevin was badly beaten at Poole bus station on a Saturday lunchtime, being left in a coma for three months.

At one point doctors thought he might not live and it was 18 months before he returned to work.

Since then, he has been robbed in Bournemouth Square, shot at by thugs with a pellet gun in Arne Avenue, Parkstone, been beaten up twice in the space of a week at the Lansdowne, Bournemouth, and had ammonia sprayed in his eyes, leaving him off work for 10 months.

Sue, 51, of Fleetsbridge, Poole, said when he stopped in Turlin Road at about 6.45pm on Saturday, yobs lifted the flap on the bus’s engine compartment, stopping the motor.

She added: “When he got out to put the flap back he was pelted with bricks and stones in the back of the head, neck and shoulders. There was a few of them and they just scarpered off laughing.”

Kevin, who is banned from speaking to the press by his employers, was taken to hospital. Remarkably, he was back behind the wheel yesterday. Sue continued: “They’re sitting ducks for the vandals.

He’s just fed up with the lack of support from the management. All the drivers feel when they go to work they’re waiting for the next one to happen. “I worry every day when he goes out that he’s not going to come back again. All he’s doing is driving a bus; he’s not in bomb disposal. He wants to go to work and not feel in danger.” Sue also said the bus’s CCTV was not working. Wilts &

Dorset PR manager, Chris Harris, said he was “unable to comment on our security arrangements”. He added: “Attacks of this nature are extremely rare, but are very much deplored by the company; it is appalling that anyone should be subjected to this treatment while simply carrying out their job.” Mr Harris said police were investigating and he did not wish to comment further to protect their drivers’ safety. • Police said witnesses should call 01202 222222.