Boozy midwife kicked off Thomas Cook flight for ‘over the top film kiss’ after downing champagne
A BOOZY midwife was kicked off a Thomas Cook plane for an “over the top film kiss” on a flight to the Dominican Republic.
Complaints were made to cabin crew after passengers saw Diane Gill, 57, and her partner “kissing amorously”.
They were asked to stop after airline staff deemed the behaviour “inappropriate” in May last year.
Later Gill started to abuse passengers and cabin crew, demanding to know who had complained about her.
She was hauled before a judge at Manchester Crown Court, and received a three month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.
Gill, from Bolton, pleaded guilty to being drunk on an aircraft.
ESCORTED FROM PLANE
She and her partner were escorted off the plane in the Dominican Republic and they had to fly home with another airline.
Cabin crew said they smelt of alcohol, but they did not have any concerns about them being unfit to fly. They were the last passengers to board the plane.
Their embrace was described as being “like a film kiss with arms all wrapped around each other”.
They stopped when asked by cabin crew, after passengers had informed staff.
The court heard that a few hours into the flight, Gill knelt on her seat and pointed at the passenger sat behind, demanding to know who had complained to cabin crew.
During the flight the couple had been seen drinking a bottle of champagne, and were said to have brought their own alcohol onto the plane.
They were sat in the emergency exit seats, where passengers are required to assist in the event of an incident.
"TOO DRUNK"
But cabin crew deemed they would be unfit to help and asked them to move, but they initially refused.
They later did agree to move, but the plane's captain requested police officers to escort them from the plane when they arrived in the Caribbean.
Thomas Cook refused to take the couple back to Manchester because they said they were too drunk, so they had to get home with another airline.
On Tuesday, Gill, of Westhoughton, appeared in court for a plea hearing and was sentenced by Judge Anthony Cross QC.