An architect is on the run after drunkenly attacking a stewardess on a flight from Dubai and accusing her of being a racist after being asked not to disturb a sleeping baby.
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Simone de Gale, 44, screamed 'I'm an architect and you're just a f***ing air hostess' when she was told not to disturb the infant on a Virgin Atlantic flight, Ealing Magistrates' Court heard today.
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De Gale verbally abused flight attendants, jabbed victim Sarah Jane Buckland near the collarbone and grabbed her cardigan on the flight to Heathrow on February 5.
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The architect flew into a rage when she was politely asked not to walk through an aisle where passengers, including a family with a nine-month-old baby, were sleeping.
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She is accused of repeatedly calling cabin crew racist and telling one attendant: 'You're a f***ing dumb air hostess.
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You need to learn your place.'
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On landing, officers attached to Heathrow Airport’s aviation policing team noticed the architect’s speech was slurred and her breath smelt strongly of alcohol, the court heard.
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She also stumbled when leaving the aircraft.
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De Gale, of Notting Hill, was today convicted of four charges including behaving in a threatening, abusive, insulting or disorderly manner towards a member of crew, being drunk in an aircraft and assaulting Ms Buckland by beating.
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She failed to attend Ealing Magistrates' Court and was found guilty in her absence, with a warrant put out for her arrest.
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Simone de Gale, 44, screamed 'I'm an architect and you're just a f***ing air hostess' when she was told not to disturb the infant on a Virgin Atlantic flight, Ealing Magistrates' Court heard
De Gale (pictured meeting King Charles), of Notting Hill, was today convicted of four charges including behaving in a threatening, abusive, insulting or disorderly manner towards a member of crew, being drunk in an aircraft and assaulting Ms Buckland by beating
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De Gale's personal assistant contacted officials to say she has been stranded in Dubai since September 8 and was due to return to the UK at the weekend.
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Prosecutor Sinan Ors told the court how de Gale became verbally abusive and threatening towards members of the cabin crew, before physically assaulting stewardess Ms Buckland.
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Giving evidence, Ms Buckland described how the incident began when de Gale attempted to cross an aisle near a sleeping family.
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Ms Buckland told the court 'I said to her: 'Would you mind not crossing at the cross aisle?'
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'I say it every flight, and she came straight across and started shouting at me: "You're a f***ing dumb air hostess.
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You need to learn your place".
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'She called me racist.
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"You've only said this to me because you're racist".
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Asked how de Gale had been speaking, she replied: 'Really loudly, really aggressive.
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It happened so quickly.'
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Ms Buckland said de Gale had demanded to see the captain and made repeated references to her own profession.
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'She was pointing.
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You're only saying this to me because you're racist, and I'm an architect and you're just a f***ing air hostess".
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She failed to attend Ealing Magistrates' Court and was found guilty in her absence, with a warrant put out for her arrest
She said a colleague approached and tried to calm de Gale, but the defendant allegedly began shouting at her too.
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Ms Buckland said she and other crew members tried to calm down the confrontation:
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'We were all trying to defuse this lady,' she said, adding that de Gale then started 'pushing' her and 'jabbing' her near her collarbone.
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De Gale is then said to have announced she needed to go to the toilet.
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Ms Buckland said: 'The next thing, she came back and just grabbed my cardigan and pulled me towards her.'
Another attendant intervened, telling de Gale to let go of her colleague.
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Ms Buckland added: 'She absolutely laid hands on me.'
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Other passengers had begun standing up as the confrontation developed, the witness said, and a male crew member, a former police officer, also arrived to assist.
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Graham Cox told the court de Gale had boasted about earning more money than the cabin crew and owning her own architecture business.
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He said she repeatedly accused the flight attendants of racism and claimed stewardesses were 'only there to serve drinks and food'.
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Asked what she had said about her profession, Mr Cox replied: 'She said she earns significantly more money than they did.
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She's an architect that owns her own business.'
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He described her behaviour as 'very loud, boisterous, aggressive'.
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'She was swearing,' he said.
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Mr Cox said de Gale was also getting into other passengers' faces while holding a phone camera.
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Passenger Jonathan Shelbourne told the court de Gale had suggested she was a better person than the flight attendant because she earned significantly more money.
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He said she also claimed to understand exactly what the aircraft's bulkhead was for because she was an architect.
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…and 15 more, not listed.
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