An Great Yarmouth
plane passenger was jailed for six months on Friday for being
drunk onboard a Gulf Air flight from Bahrain to Heathrow Airport.
However, Karl
Foster, 37, of Kings Road, Gorleston remains at liberty after
jumping bail and failing to appear for his trial.
He was convicted
in his absence by an Isleworth Crown Court jury of being drunk on
flight GF007 on February 2, last year and a warrant remains for his
arrest.
Foster did appear
via videolink from his local magistrates court at a pre-trial
hearing, where his frustration with the case was obvious.
He pleaded not
guilty to the charge and asked: “How can I take action against the
airline for failing in its duty of care?
“All because I
had one pint in Bahrain? This is a waste of resources, money. It's
stupid.
“Someone has a
mental breakdown on a plane and they are charged. Is that it?
“This is
absolutely ridiculous. I spent three weeks in India after someone was
run over in front of me by my taxi driver.
“I was tired, I
was fragile, I had not slept for three weeks. They filled me with
vodka and I had a meltdown.”
When told the jury
trial would go ahead Foster said to the judge: “Five times I asked
for help and now I'm asked to shell out s***loads of money.
“How do I take
the airline to court? Why am I being screwed over and my life turned
upside down?”
He was also
sentenced to an extra fourteen days to run consecutively to the six
months for breaching his bail.
3 comments:
Love to know where you get your info from.guessing from the paper that wrote the original bullshit and lies. You know get your facts right before you ruin someone's life. See you in court to.the list goes on.
Why do you get your lies from? Edp24 by any chance... See you in court to. How many cases of lible am I going to be filing??
Interesting read. Shame you couldn't print the real story and that being what happened before the flight. An uber taxi driver killing a pedestrian and then the police at an international airport taking a bribe by UBER and it all being covered up. This followed with Indian main media coverage millions of followers on social media before being whipped and death threats to myself. Like I said mental breakdown. But cooperate greed and freedom to print what makes money instead of what matters prevails
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