Ryan told the flight attendant 'I want your chocolate children' before grabbing both of her wrists, the court heard
has been found guilty of racially aggravated assault after telling a black flight attendant “I want your chocolate children” while drunk on a plane.
Ryan was found guilty at Ealing Magistrates’ Court of being drunk on an aircraft, assaulting a police officer by biting him, racially aggravated common assault by beating and behaving in an abusive way towards the cabin crew member. Before boarding the delayed flight, Ryan ate cheese in the BA lounge and drank a whole bottle of port, he said.
She went on: “It felt like he was saying I was beautiful for a black person because of the way he was describing my colour.” “I was intimidated, I felt a bit embarrassed like I wasn’t doing my duty properly. To get comments about my colour whether intentional or not, it was just unacceptable and so derogatory.
The pop star went on: “I’m sorry. My band member is black, I’m not racist, I’ve had black girlfriends, mixed-race girlfriends. It was banter, just drunk banter I suppose, there was no malice or intention to upset anyone.”
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