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Mum flipped on Ryanair crew after she was asked to stop vaping on Manchester flight
18.08.2023 - 05:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum has avoided jail after drunkenly abusing a Ryanair flight attendant who asked her to stop vaping on board the plane.
Jessica Horne, 33, was flying back from Fuerteventura to Manchester in March last year when events escalated.
She was moved to various seats around the plane after trying to touch and kiss the staff member, before launching into an expletive-ridden racist rant. The abuse was the ‘worst he had ever seen’, prosecutor Lisa Boocock told Minshull Street Crown Court.
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She was met on the runway by police after the plane landed but as she was escorted back to police custody she attacked two officers.
Horne, of Briercliffe, Burnley, admitted entering an aircraft when drunk, racially aggravated harassment and two offences of assaulting a police officer, but was handed a suspended sentence.
The court heard that on March 29 last year, Horne, her partner and her child boarded a Ryanair flight from Fuerteventura to Manchester. She had been drinking beer ‘all day’ at the resort’, it was said.
During the flight she was asked to stop vaping as it was ‘forbidden’. “The cabin crew member had to tell her five times to stop vaping for her to eventually stop,” Ms Boocock said.
“He took her to the back of the plane to calm her down and one passenger offered her his seat so she could sit away from her family, as her partner was also complaining about her behaviour.
“The defendant then touched the flight attendant and tried to kiss him on the cheek.”
She continued harassing the man when he removed her vape by taking hold of his jacket, stroking his name tag and saying his name which made him feel uncomfortable.
Things then escalated, with Horne using
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