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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-11T23:41:37.000Z",
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    "who had to be sedated after he assaulted his wife and tried to kiss a flight attendant",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nA drunk businessman who had to be sedated after he assaulted his wife and tried to kiss a flight attendant has been jailed.\n\nPhilip Gould, 64, had been drinking wine and vodka when he unleashed a flurry of abuse at cabin crew on a British Airways flight from the Bahamas to London Heathrow on June 25.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nGould was returning home from a luxury holiday in Grand Cayman with his wife when he slapped her and abused the cabin crew during a “frightening” ordeal.\n\nHe also crudely propositioned a male flight attendant after being refused more alcohol.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\nGould repeatedly volleyed abuse at cabin crew before lunging towards the cockpit door and began angrily shouting at the captain.\n\nBritish Airways staff alerted the pilot and told Gould to calm down, which only aggravated him more, the court heard, with Gould having to be sedated by his wife with the assistance of a doctor.\n\nGould earlier admitted sexual assault, acting in a manner likely to endanger an aircraft and being drunk in an aircraft.\n\nHe was handed a 14-month immediate custodial sentence for endangering an aircraft, with further simultaneous sentences of 14 weeks for sexual assault, 10 months for being drunk on an aircraft, and one month for two counts of beating.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nJudge Hannah Duncan at Isleworth Crown Court said on Wednesday: 'No-one on that flight who was at your end of the plane is likely to forget it, ever.\n\n“I suspect they will be quite nervous about getting on a flight in the future.”\n\nThe court heard Gould handed police a prepared statement following his arrest back in England in which he dismissed some of his conduct as “playful banter”.\n\nThe judge said: “This was a prolonged incident where you ignored all attempts to diffuse the situation, in which you behaved in an entirely appalling manner in a number of ways.”\n\n### CRIME - READ MORE:\n\n\n\n\n  * Police charge 12 men with manslaughter after death of football fan following 'violent attack'\n  * Woman jailed for life after cutting ex-girlfriend in half and burying body in garden\n  * Drug dealer jailed after rigging properties with 'Home Alone-style' booby traps\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nGould reportedly screamed at the cabin crew: 'I'll kill you - there are not enough people on the plane to restrain me,\" before he slapped his wife and grabbed her by the hair.\n\nWhen a panicked air hostess tried to intervene, Gould shouted at her with a further bombardment of abusive language.\n\nGould then stood up and “kissed a male flight attendant on the right cheek before nibbling on his ear.”\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe prosecutor said: “The defendant's escalating behaviour was frightening and he became a serious safety issue.”\n\nManny Arora, defending previously, said his client suffers from PTSD and was “remorseful”.\n\nHe told the court: “He accepts he consumed some vodka. But when he entered the aircraft, he was not intoxicated”.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "Drunk BA passenger is jailed after kissing flight attendant and screaming 'I'll kill you' at crew in mid-air rampage"
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