By
Press Association 2021
Rachel Street
A first-class airline passenger who shouted “I hope this plane crashes” while carrying out an “utterly appalling” drunken attack during a flight from Barbados to Heathrow has been spared jail.
Rachel Street, from south London, “lashed out” at Virgin Atlantic staff and pulled one woman’s hair following a “litany of abuse” while travelling back from the Caribbean island on January 5.
Appearing at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Monday, the 41-year-old was fined £10,000, made the subject of a 7pm to 7am curfew for six months and a rehabilitation requirement, and ordered to pay £1,000 in compensation.
The self-employed production assistant was also handed a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.