Lucky not to be jailed, the drunk who ranted at air stewardess
A WOMAN who launched a drunken and aggressive rant at cabin crew would have been jailed had the jet she was on been in the air, a judge told her yesterday.
Lauren Beaumont-Capps, 40, repeatedly told stewardesses to ‘f*** off’ after she was prevented from getting off a flight that had been delayed by half an hour. One stewardess was reduced to tears.
The Jet2 aircraft had landed at Manchester after a four-hour flight from Turkey during which Beaumont-Capps had downed four glasses of wine.
Recorder Anna Vigars KC told her she would have been imprisoned had her ‘aggressive and abusive behaviour’ taken place before landing.
The judge said: ‘Quite why you chose to become aggressive rather than just waiting, I don’t know. Alcohol played a large part.
You were extremely abusive to the cabin crew and you frightened them.’
Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester heard that on the evening of January 13, Beaumont-Capps demanded to be let off via the rear doors straight after landing. But the single mother of one became angry when told she could only exit at the front and shouted: ‘Get me off this f***ing plane.’
She was asked to stop swearing but said: ‘ So f***ing what?’ and called air hostesses ‘stupid c****’. When warned that the police had been called, she replied: ‘ Good luck to you’.
She then claimed her father was a detective chief inspector. This was a lie.
One of the stewardesses, Olivia Cammell, was so upset she burst into tears while colleague Teri Grumbridge was left shaking.
Miss Cammell said she had been a member of cabin crew for eight years but added: ‘I am now apprehensive about flying as I am worried that something like this might happen again.’
Prosecutor Kiera Shaw said Beaumont-Capps, who works for a cosmetic dentist surgery in Turkey, had been flying to and from the country for five months. Oliver Jarvis, defending, said his client ‘feels awful and humiliated when she reads what she said’.
Beaumont-Capps, of Swinton, Manchester, admitted being drunk on an aircraft and using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour. She was sentenced to a 12-month community order and told to complete ten rehabilitation days.
‘Awful and humiliated’