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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Man avoids jail for drunkenly abusing crew on flight to Gatwick after drinking champagne in airport lounge

A finance worker who drunkenly abused fellow passengers and crew on a flight to Gatwick after drinking Champagne in an airport lounge has been sentenced to carry out community service, say police.

Sussex Police said Harrison Tilson, 33, was “rude and abusive” on a flight from Mallorca to Gatwick Airport on May 15 last year, before striking a member of cabin crew as they tried to stop him hitting a passenger.

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