A father and son left a fellow plane passenger with "horrendous injuries" when they attacked him following an argument about a seat being pushed back. Robert Powell, 58, the director of an online counselling company, and his son James, 22, were found guilty by magistrates of assault by beating
At their sentencing hearing, a judge said neither had "shown a bit of remorse" for launching the assault on Sreenivasayyr Janakiram in September 2021. She handed the pair, of Enfield, London, suspended prison sentences.
Uxbridge Magistrates' Court heard the Powells had gotten into a row with Mr Janakiram on a flight to Heathrow on September 25, 2021. District judge Deborah Wright said the argument was "to do with the seat going back".
