TWO British nationals — whose alleged brawl on a Virgin Atlantic flight to Jamaica allegedly resulted in £25,000 worth of damage to the cabin of the aircraft — are to stand trial in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
The trial date was set when the two Londoners, Jason Dixon and Danielle Bishop, appeared before Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey yesterday — a day after they were arrested and charged with malicious destruction of property, air rage disorderly conduct, among others.
Dixon and Bishop, who were denied landing privileges as a result of the incident, were remanded into police custody until the trial on Friday.
Yesterday, Bishop alleged that the fight started when a drunken Dixon attacked after she shunned his sexual advances.
She claimed that Dixon had been drinking from the start of the flight and at some point started to ask her personal questions, which she did not take kindly to. Dixon, she alleged, held onto her hand while using derogatory terms to describe what he wanted to do to her.
Bishop told the court further that she was only defending herself against Dixon whom she alleged had ripped her clothes and yanked out strands of her hair. The two never knew each other previously.
After the fight was broken up, it was realised that several cabins had been damaged. The two were arrested and charged Monday afternoon, shortly after disembarking the flight at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.
Bishop had earlier yesterday pleaded guilty to the charges, but after hearing her explanation, Pusey rejected the plea and set the matter for trial.
Dixon, however, said that he was not guilty of the allegations against him and that he was defending himself against Bishop.
Source: jamaicaobserver
