By GB News (World News) | Created at 2024-11-26 13:51:36 | Updated at 2024-11-28 00:46:29
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A Ryanair passenger who admitted sexually assaulting a flight attendant as a plane was about to land has dodged jail.
Sebastian Russo was flying on the flight from Krakow to Edinburgh when he touched the cabin crew member on the behind.
The 39-year-old appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and gave an address in Hyndland, in Glasgow.
Russo is currently employed as a science teacher at a high school in the Czech Republic and was flying into Scotland to spend the Christmas holidays with his mother on December 21 last year when the incident happened.
The incident happened on a Ryanair flight from Poland to Edinburgh (file pic)
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The incident happened in Edinburgh Airport in December
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The Crown accepted not guilty pleas to charges of Russo behaving in an abusive, disorderly and insulting manner towards cabin crew by shouting, swearing, screaming, failing to obey instructions and acting in an aggressive manner, and to being drunk on board the same flight.
Russo returned to the dock for sentencing on Monday where Sheriff John Cook fined him £940 and placed him on the sex offenders register for five years.
Sheriff Cook said: "There are a number of aggravations to this charge; firstly it was an assault in the course of the victim’s employment and secondly the locus was on board an aircraft.
"The contact in this case was fleeting and albeit the complainer was stressed she was able to carry on with her duties in spite of that."
