Posted on 04/08/2019 5:03:48 AM PDT by simpson96
A prominent anti-Israel barrister has been jailed for six months after she was videoed ranting drunkenly on an Air India flight about how she was “an international criminal lawyer for the f***ing Palestinian people”, and spat in the face of a member of the cabin crew.
Simone Burns from Hove, also known as Simone O’Broin, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday, having pleaded guilty to both assault and being drunk on an aircraft at her trial last month at Uxbridge Magistrates Court.
In footage of the incident filmed by a fellow passenger, Burns can be seen remonstrating with a member of the flight crew after being refused a fourth bottle of wine on a flight from Mumbai to London last November.
“I’m a leader of the f***ing boycott movement", she shouted at a member of the cabin crew.
“If I say "boycott" - f***ing Air India, done… I'm a f****** barrister. A human rights lawyer, and an international criminal lawyer.”
She also called airline staff “Indian, money grabbing c****," smoked a cigarette in the toilets and spat in the face of a female member of staff who refused to serve her more alcohol.
She was arrested by the police when the flight landed at Heathrow.
Burns has previously written a paper accusing Israel of genocide over its treatment of the Palestinians, whom she described as "a group struggling for self-determination against a colonial, racist regime”.(snip)
The magistrates court had referred her case to the High Court after concluding that her offences deserved a more serious sentence than that which they were able to hand down.
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Looks like an old crone from a Shakespeare play.
Hate filled psychopath.
I bet she looked pretty good before electricity
Time is a factor.
Doesn’t explain how she got away with just a six month sentence from the High Court. A UK magistrates court can issue a six-month sentence. The sole purpose of referring the case to the High Court was the magistrates deemed this way over their heads i.e. endangering an aircraft is MUCH more serious than six-months. Seems like she got preferential soft-touch treatment from the High Court?
A barristress?
“I think that European women wear it on the right hand.”
So there’s still a chance some poor dude has to deal with this......bummer.
The crazy is strong on this one.
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