A drunken lout who was abusive to cabin crew assaulted two police officers after being kicked off a Jet2 flight headed for Ibiza.
Reece Nelson was ejected from the early morning flight at Newcastle Airport after being verbally abusive to a female flight attendant and causing a disruption before take-off on July 3 this year. The 31-year-old branded a flight attended a “bi***” before assaulting two police officers as they walked him off the flight down the steps. Nelson continued to hurl abuse at officers when back at the police station and had to be restrained.
Nelson, of Allendale Road, Farringdon, Sunderland, appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court wearing a hoody and a pair of shorts on Monday to be sentenced for two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and being drunk in an aircraft. He had pleaded guilty to the charges on the day his trial was due to begin.
