A chef attacked his fiancée and grabbed her in a chokehold in front of their four-year-old son in an airport after downing vodka during a flight back to the UK. Tibor Tornyai, 27, flew into a rage and attacked Petra Rumplikova on a walkway after earlier drinking four miniature bottles of the spirit on the plane to Manchester from Slovakia.
Staff had to separate the pair as Tornyai grabbed Miss Rumplikova by the neck and lifted her off the ground. The little boy tried to intervene but ran away in fright as his father continued the assault.
It later emerged Tornyai, of Harphurhey, Manchester, had been on a trip to see family in Slovakia over Christmas and to celebrate his birthday, but had been brooding over a burglary at his home two weeks earlier in which his house was stripped of their possessions.