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Drunk Woman Abuses Fellow Passengers on Flight from Hurghada

May 3, 2018
Sandy beaches of Paradise Island in Hurghada. Credit: Enas El Masry

It has emerged that a woman on-board a flight from Hurghada to Birmingham, United Kingdom, verbally abused fellow passengers and cabin crew after drinking too much alcohol. Sharon O’Donaghue, 45, was travelling on March 12th, taking advantage of the on-board drinks service. According to the Daily Mail, after being served her first glass of wine, she had appeared “perfectly genial and was exchanging pleasantries with others.” The situation began to escalate, however, after she purchased two 1 litre bottles of Bacardi rum from duty-free, and proceeded to request a second glass of wine from the bar. A member of the cabin crew suspected that she was drunk as she was stumbling, and noticed that a quarter of one of the bottles of rum had disappeared. The cabin crew member spoke to her manager, and when they asked whether O’Donaghue has consumed the rum, she replied, “no, I have spilled it on my bad foot.” O’Donaghue then started to become aggressive, asking if the manager spoke Arabic or Turkish. She replied in Turkish. Richard Franck, a Birmingham Crown Court prosecutor, said that by this time, “other passengers were starting to get disturbed, and some…


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