By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-16 04:41:46 | Updated at 2025-03-17 03:49:05
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A 57-year-old man will be charged in court on Monday for allegedly using abusive words against an airline staff and causing destruction to property at Changi Airport in Singapore.
The authorities were alerted on March 8 to an incident of a man shouting and being rude to a female airline staff at Terminal 3, and damaging a wall in a gate hold room, police said on Sunday.
Investigations revealed that the British man realised that he had misplaced his mobile phone after boarding the aircraft for his flight from Singapore to London.
He then left the aircraft, hoping to search for it at the airport lounge he was at earlier, read the news release.
A female airline staff at the gate hold room assisted to check with the airport lounge staff and informed him that no mobile phone was found there.
As it was close to the scheduled departure time of the flight, she informed him that leaving the gate hold room would result in him being offloaded from the flight.
The man then allegedly responded with “a slew of abusive and derogatory words”, police said.
