Chaos on flight to Berlin
BY ALEXANDER LAWRIE A DRUNK Rangers fan groped an air stewardess’s breast on a flight to watch the team play in Germany, a court heard yesterday.
Souness Clark – who was born in 1990, the same year as former Rangers manager Graeme Souness won a league title with the Ibrox club – was among 200 supporters on a flight from Edinburgh to Berlin in January. They were on their way to see Rangers play German side RB Leipzig.
Cabin crew struggled to keep order during the flight as rowdy fans began shouting and singing.
As one female air steward tried to serve beer to a passenger, Clark, 28, from Clydebank, grabbed and squeezed her breast.
The easyJet employee was said to have been left “physically shaken” by the sex attack.
Fiscal depute Mark Keane told the court: “The accused reached out and grabbed her by the breast and compressed it.”
When the plane touched down in Berlin’s Tegel Airport, it was met by German police.
Clark was taken to a local hospital and cautioned and charged for the offence. When he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday, Clark pled guilty to sexually assaulting the air steward on the flight.
Defending solicitor Michael Gallan said Clark had acted out of “drunkenness” and had “no real recollection” of his behaviour.
Sheriff Michael O’Grady deferred full sentence on Clark to later this month.
Police are looking for fans’ footage after assistant referee Calum Spence was hit by an object thrown from the crowd during the Livingston v Rangers on Sunday.
Superintendent Craig Smith said: “I would also ask anyone who has any photos or footage of this incident to submit this to police.”