Lawyer jailed for spitting at flight attendant during racist tirade

Simone Burns gets six-month sentence for ‘insulting and upsetting act’ during Air India flight

A lawyer who spat at a flight attendant during a racist foul-mouthed tirade after she was refused alcohol on a nine-hour business class flight has been jailed for six months.

Judge Nicholas Wood, sentencing at Isleworth crown court, told Simone Burns: “The experience of a drunk and irrational person in the confines of an aircraft is frightening, not least on a long-haul flight and poses a potential risk to safety.”

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