Ryanair passengers burst into a round of applause after two business owners were pulled off of the plane due to 'drunken behaviour'.
Prosecuting, James Preece told the Manchester Crown Court that the flight's captain had requested police assistance when the flight landed 'due to the drunken behaviour of the defendants'. After their removal was met with applause from other passengers, the pair were arrested on the airfield at Manchester Airport. Mr Preece said Aspinall 'refused to stand still' as officers tried to detain her, before calling an officer a 'cruel b******'.
"Both accept they were clearly drunk," Ms Cooper said. "They both feel they did not realise how drunk they had become.