Drunk model fined for abusing passengers on Easyjet flight

A wannabe model who was so drunk on a flight that she thought she was still in Morocco when the plane landed at Gatwick has been fined for abusing passengers.

Mother-of-two Parise Leandra Marciano Gale, 27, was on her way home from a Valentine’s Day getaway with her partner to Marrakech when things turned nasty on the EasyJet flight.

Prosecutor Mark Kateley told Crawley magistrates that Gale “was in a very intoxicated state and quite loud”.

When some passengers told her to be quiet she responded with “unpleasant abuse,” he said.

She was so drunk that when police arrested her at Gatwick she still believed she was on holiday in the Moroccan city, rather than back in the UK, the court heard.

Mr Kateley added: “The police were told there was a drunk female onboard and she was met off the aircraft by police, who recorded her being loud, shouting and extremely inebriated.

“She was so inebriated she was under the impression she was still in Marrakesh and not the UK.”

Gale, who styles herself as a model, actress, and dancer, admitted drinking heavily on the flight, on February 21, and blamed the incident on being a nervous flyer.

As she was fined for the outburst, Gale vowed: “I’m never going to drink on a plane ever again.”

Gale, a former property lettings agent who studied performing arts at Hammersmith College, pleaded guilty to being drunk on board a flight.

The court also heard she has three previous convictions for assault, and was given a suspended prison sentence in 2016.

“She apologises and expresses her remorse and embarrassment”, said her lawyer James McAllister.

“She has anxiety and had stopped taking her medication and was nervous on the flight and got drunk to get through the flight and there was an argument with another passenger that boiled over.”

Magistrate Lesley Overington gave Gale, from West Brompton, a £150 fine and ordered her to pay £115 in court costs and fees.

“It was not a good thing to get drunk on an aircraft”, she said. “Don’t do it again.”

Arrests of passengers suspected of being drunk at UK airports and on flights rose by 50 per cent in a year, an investigation found.

A total of 387 people were arrested between February 2016 and February 2017 - up from 255 the previous year.

Meanwhile, more than half of cabin crew who responded to a survey said they had witnessed disruptive drunken passenger behaviour at UK airports.

The Home Office is “considering” calls for tougher rules on alcohol.