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Daily Mirror
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Adela Whittingham & Joe Smith

Company director fined over racist outburst in British Airways lounge at Heathrow

A Finnish businessman told another passenger to “go back to his own country” in a British Airways lounge at London's Heathrow airport.

Markku Tynkkynen, 69, admitted racial harassment after telling passenger Jain Wu that “Chinese people are arrogant” and was fined a total of £2,189.

When confronted by the lounge manager, he repeated the comments and was promptly arrested and put in a cell for the night.

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