‘New’ £90k Lowry up for auction
A CHARITY manageress who began a drunken fight involving up to 20 men on a holiday jet has been jailed.
Karin Parkes, 57, and daughter Carrie, 35, started a “mini riot” when they were warned by cabin crew for swearing while intoxicated on wine and pink gin.
The captain of the plane carry 186 passengers from Manchester to Agadir, Morocco, on January 19 last year was forced to divert to Casablanca.
Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, heard Karin, a manager at an organisation providing home care for the disabled, swung at a steward and Carrie had to be forcibly restrained by other passengers.
The pair, from Blackpool, were arrested after being booed off the plane. Karin Parkes was jailed for three months after being convicted of assault and being drunk on an aircraft.
Carrie, found guilty of being drunk on an aircraft, was given a three-month suspended jail sentence. Both women,
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banned from flying with easyJet for 10 years. Jonathan Thomas, 38, of Blackpool, who was with the women, got a three-month suspended jail term, a £620 fine, a 10-year flight ban and was told to do 50 hours unpaid work for also being drunk on an aircraft. Cabin manager Liam Dickson said: “There was a lot of fists flying around with other passengers. It was as if there was a riot happening and there were at least 15-20 men stood up. They were out of control, threatening and abusive.” Stewardess Beth Halliwell added: “I have never been so scared in my life at work.” Carrie, who has bipolar disorder, apologised, saying: “I have got a whole plane of passengers booing me and one of my triggers is rejection. I must have just lost it.” Karin told Judge John Edwards: “I stood up in her defence because she’s a vulnerable adult and I’m her mother.”
AN OIL painting by LS Lowry that has never been seen in public is going under the hammer.
People In A Park shows a throng of folk of all ages and backgrounds mixing in an outdoor space.
Industrial buildings and church spires loom large in the snapshot of life in the bustling industrial North.
The painting – a typical example of the figure pictures Lowry drew during the latter part of his career – is signed and dated 1971.
It was originally owned by John Fletcher of Oldham, who gifted it to his housekeeper.
The work is expected to fetch £60,000 to £90,000 at the online sale held by Tennants Auctioneers on March 6.