Drunken air rage man now in jail
AMAN who was spared jail after a drunken, abusive row with his girlfriend on a plane home to Manchester is now behind bars - after breaching a ban on seeing her.
Harry Wayne Woolley, 37, swore and ‘flailed his arms around’ on the flight while boozed up on his own duty free vodka after a trip to Morocco last year.
He was hauled into court in March last year and admitted to being drunk on an aircraft.
Stockport magistrates handed him a 12-week jail term at the time, but suspended the sentence for a year after hearing Woolley was abusive but not violent on the flight and had been struggling after losing his job and flat.
However, Woolley, of Richborough Close, Salford, is now behind bars after he flouted the restraining order against his partner in March this year.
Police were called to flats in Edgeley where Woolley had visited his girlfriend, despite being banned from any contact.
He was arrested and held in the cells overnight and appeared before the bench on March 26.
He admitted breaching the restraining order by harassment and was sentenced to six weeks in prison. But because he was also still serving a suspended sentence for his drunken antics on the Morocco to Manchester flight almost a year earlier, he was handed a further eight weeks custody totalling 14 weeks in jail.
During his hearing for being drunk on the flight, he told the court: “I apologise, I had too much [to drink] accidentally. I didn’t mean it.”
Chairman of the bench Albert Yates told him: “Decent people save up all year to go on holiday. When they get drunks like you causing problems it ruins their holiday.
“This nonsense about you being scared of flying, that’s not going to be solved with a bottle of vodka.”
Woolley’s partner had applied to Manchester’s magistrates to have the restraining order lifted, but the request was rejected.
‘Being scared of flying is not going to be solved with a bottle of vodka’