I am definitely not outright saying that this isn't true but I feel like in a case where the outcome could be 3 years in prison it would take longer than a month to go from incident to conviction. However for all we know the original incident happened months before OP posted about it. So while I don't want to think of the guy as a liar it would be good to see some proof, a news article or whatever. Right now the story has too much of a 'and then the whole bus applauded' vibe.