FLIGHTMARE

Sweary pair’s drunken antics aboard holiday jet

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A Foul-mouthed couple got drunk and caused mayhem on a holiday flight filled with families.

Mother-of-four Gemma Heap, 35, and Philip Mycock, 38, were “loud, slurring and sweary” and played childish pranks on other passengers.

One man had to switch seats after Mycock took his hat off him before trying it on and making jokes about it.

Mycock also had to be told to sit down after he used the toilet while the seatbelt signs were still lit on the flight to Tunisia.

The pair apologised as they left the Thomas Cook jet at Enfidha in July 2019 but were ordered to talk to police on their return to

Manchester.

At Minshull Street

Crown Court, Manchester, financial administrator

Heap and Mycock, both of

Whitefield, Bury, admitted being drunk on an aircraft. Judge Mark Savill told the couple they had behaved “disgracefully”, adding: “It was a flight full of parents and children and you ruined the start of everybody’s holiday.”

Heap, who has a nineweek-old baby, was given four months’ jail suspended for a year, while Mycock got six months suspended for 18 months and must do 200 hours of unpaid work.