Drunk pilot flight axed

A drunken co- pilot left 106 passengers stranded in Stuttgart after his flight had to be cancelled.

The flight to Lisbon was called off when an airport employee saw the 40-yearold man walking unsteadily and smelled alcohol on him.

TAP Air Portugal have apologised to passengers on the Friday flight, who will not be able to travel until tomorrow.

Hitman James Bain admitted having a smuggled Sim card for a phone in his cel l at Shotts in Lanarkshire and was sentenced to eight months.

The conviction means he has racked up an extra seven years for mobile offences since being jailed for life in 2007 for murdering Alexander McKinnon in an Edinburgh pub.

Bain blasted his victim with a sawn- off shotgun in the Marmion bar in 2006 and was also jailed for attempting to murder McKinnon’s brother-in-law James Hendry during the same attack.

The 34- year- old thug’s added time will run alongside the 22-year term he received for gunning down ex-boxing champ McKinnon.

The Parole Board for Scotland said that offences for mobile phone smuggling could affect future parole hearings. Bain is not eligible for parole until 2029.

A spokesman said: “The Parole Board for Scotland considers each case on its own merits and takes account of all the information, including convictions, put before it in considering whether a prisoner can be released on licence.”

The latest SIM card was found in Bain’s desk in his cell during a routine search last October. Hami lton

It’s baffling how such a serious criminal could access phones