You can't cuff me... I'm not a danger to the plane

JAIL FOR HOLIDAYMAKER WHO SANK SIX DOUBLE VODKAS BEFORE ABUSING CABIN CREW ON FLIGHT FROM MEXICO

- PAUL BRITTON

A DRUNK holidaymaker who shouted vile abuse at cabin crew on an eighthour flight from Mexico back to Manchester Airport has been jailed.

Two off-duty police officers on the TUI flight from Cancun were forced to step in to try to calm self-employed scaffolder Alexander Rogers, 40, who was subsequently handcuffed to a chair, a court was told.

Rogers – who later told police he had six double vodkas before boarding – called one member of cabin crew an ‘Arab b****’.

The court heard that after being handcuffed, he shouted: “You can’t f***ing’ cuff me. Black Lives Matter. I am not a terrorist. I am not a danger to the plane. I am not a terrorist.”

Rogers, from Rochdale, pushed the shoulder of another member of the cabin crew and said to her: “Just f*** off. Get f***ed”