Passenger Breaks Down After Receiving Sentence For Violent Outburst

A drunk, violent and abusive Thomas Cook passenger has been given ten months’ worth of detention for her outburst on a flight from Manchester to Turkey last September. This serious incident resulted in the removal of Kodie Richardson and her mother, Kelly Meadowcroft, from the Antalya-bound plane.

A violent and abusive air passenger reportedly cried as she was sentenced to ten months’ detention for her behavior on a Thomas Cook flight last September, Manchester Evening News reports. The incident involved Kodie Richardson, 20, who was traveling with her mother, Kelly Meadowcroft, on Antalya-bound Thomas Cook Airlines Flight MT354 from Manchester, England.

Just as the plane was making preparations to taxi down the runway, Richardson started to become disruptive. The outlet reports that she threatened to hit a crew member while her mother also became verbally abusive.

Because of the pair’s behavior, the flight’s captain asked for police assistance and returned to the terminal. Authorities then entered the plane and attempted to remove the mother and daughter. It is reported that Richardson yelled and shouted at police and refused to comply with their request that she leave the craft.

With considerable effort, she was hauled from the plane while violently kicking, screaming and swearing at the four officers, two of whom were injured during the course of the incident. Richardson’s mother – who was also removed from the flight – did not become physically aggressive during the course of her removal from the flight.

Passing his sentence in Manchester, Judge Savill, the presiding magistrate, told Richardson that she had acted out a “prolonged antisocial and obnoxious piece of behavior”.

“Members of the public look forward to their holidays and you ruined it before they had even started,” he added.

Meadowcroft, however, pleaded guilty to an array of charges, including assault, and has been given a two-month jail sentence.

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