JET BOOZE MUM: MY CELL HELL

Daughter, 4, in Dubai ordeal

A MUM was locked up in Dubai for drinking wine on a plane.

pute began on July 13 when an immigraDr Ellie Holman spent three days in a tion official said Ellie’s visa was invalid cell with four-year-old daughter Bibi. and told her to get a flight home.

She consumed booze provided on her Ellie says she “pleaded” with him to let Emirates Airlines flight from her get a new visa at the airport London to the Arab state, where – but he asked if she had been alcohol is illegal. drinking and breath-tested her.

Now the dentist has been Ellie began filming him on her ordered to stay there while the phone and was surrounded by case is dealt with, which could armed police who told her it was take up to a year. illegal to record officials.

If convicted, she has been told The mother and daughter were to expect a long jail sentence. then detained and made to sleep

Ellie’s blood alcohol reading on a canteen floor. was 0.04%, way below the UK Ellie claimed guards tried to drink-driving limit. Emirates rip out her hair extensions, routinely serves booze on its denied her water and forced flights from the UK to Dubai. Bibi to go to the toilet on the

Speaking from Dubai, where TERROR: Ellie floor. She added: “The food she is now on bail, the 44-yearsmelled like rotting garbage. old mum-of-three said yesterday: “I just I stayed awake for the whole three days.” want to go home. Following her release, Bibi was flown

My daughter is a happy, smiley girl home by her father Gary, who is trying but she was terrified. Being in prison territo win Ellie’s freedom by campaigning fied me as a grown-up, I cannot imagine from their home in Sevenoaks, Kent. how this must have affected her.” The dis-