Twin sisters hauled before judge after drink fuelled row caused plane to be turned around at Manchester Airport
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTwin sisters were hauled before a judge after a drink fuelled row caused a plane to be turned around. Laura Butterworth was ‘incoherent, volatile and abusive’ and began vomiting after being thrown off the plane at Manchester Airport.
Katie Butterworth was ‘argumentative’ and did not sit down when asked. The pair, university graduates both aged 34, caused trouble on an aircraft which was taxiing before its departure to Fuerteventura.
Katie Butterworth’s barrister told Manchester Crown Court: “The holiday was simply to have an inexpensive break in the sun for a week with her sister, which didn’t go to plan.” READ MORE: Mum, 21, pushing her baby in a pram slammed for 'extraordinary' decision Prosecutors told how the twins both boarded a TUI flight on June 1 this year, on different aisles but sat one in front of the other.
Laura Butterworth became involved in an argument with a woman sitting next to her, after the defendant’s bag fell into the aisle and its contents ‘spilled onto the floor’.
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