A MAN has been fined for abusive behaviour towards aircraft crew at an airport.

Sam Worrall, 26, of Cleveleys Road, Holbeck, Leeds, faced a charge of behaving in a threatening, abusive, insulting or disorderly manner towards a member of aircraft crew.

Worrall was convicted of behaving in a threatening, abusive, insulting or disorderly manner towards a member of an aircraft crew from Jet2 at Leeds Bradford Airport on March 18, 2022. This was contrary to articles 245(b) and 265(6) of the Air Navigation Order 2016.

He was fined £2,500 and ordered to pay a £190 victim surcharge and £85 costs for the offence for a total £2,775 to be paid by October 11, 2022.

Worrall was sentenced in his absence at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on September 13, 2022.

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