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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Drunk airline passenger slapped police officer at London Heathrow after refusing to wear face mask

A plane flies in to Heathrow (Steve Parsons/PA)

(Picture: PA Archive)

A woman drunkenly slapped a police officer in the face with a make-up bag after she refused to wear a mask on a flight into the UK, a court heard.

Lotta Kemppinen, 28, had been drinking before she boarded the flight from Helsinki to the UK on Christmas Eve last year, and started “bothering” fellow passengers during the two-hour flight.

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