£2000 fine for air rage drunk
06.10.10
A violent, drunken man who punched a passenger on a jet to Spain and kicked a flight attendant was yesterday fined £2,000. Colin Coats, 40, threatened to burn other easyJet passengers on the flight from Glasgow to Alicante.
Coats, of Glasgow, told steward George Barron he would kill him if police boarded the plane in September last year. He shouted: ‘I'm Colin Coats. I'm a gangster, do you know who I am?’
Spanish police had to pin him horizontally at the back of the cabin to try to force him to calm down. So he turned his attention to a female passenger seated nearby, swore at her and said he would burn her house down. He asked if she had children then said he would burn them too.
He admitted assaulting a cabin crew member and threatening passengers on the plane at Paisley Sheriff Court, but claimed his drink had been spiked. Sheriff Neil Douglas rejected this and imposed fines on Coats totalling £2,000. He said that Coats would have been jailed if the incident had happened while the plane was in the air.
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