DRUNK RYANAIR PASSENGER ADMITS TO ASSAULTING TWO PEOPLE ON FLIGHT

A drunk Ryanair passenger has admitted to assaulting two people on a flight from Tenerife to Liverpool.
Catherine Bellis, 44, tearfully nodded as a judge told her 'all sentencing options remained available'. She appeared before Liverpool Crown Court this afternoon, charged in connection with the incident onboard the flight. 
Bellis, from Meadowcroft Park in West Derby, was charged with two counts of assault by beating, the particulars being on November 26, 2024 she assaulted Christopher Kenny and Beata Haynes.
She was also charged with being drunk on an aircraft.
Bellis pleaded guilty to all three charges and will be sentenced at the same court on May 12.
Callum Ross, defending, told the court his client is a woman of previous good character.
Addressing Bellis, who wore a black blazer and high heels and had blonde hair, Judge Anil Murray said she had pleaded guilty to the charges and would be awarded credit at her sentencing.
He told her: 'There are no promises on what your sentence will be. All options remain available including an immediate custodial sentence.'
Bellis, who was given unconditional bail, was asked to meet the Probation Service following the end of the brief hearing to prepare a pre-sentence report.
The prosecution was represented by Derek Jones.
Last July, a mass brawl broke out on a Ryanair flight from Morocco to London, forcing the plane to divert just 36 minutes into the journey.
Video from the cabin showed passengers screaming at each other in a row that was reportedly sparked when a family asked to swap seats.
Visibly flustered cabin crew were seen trying to calm the passengers down as the plane soared at 30,000 feet.
The plane was travelling from Agadir to London Stansted when a row broke out between two families as people boarded, one witness said at the time.
A few months earlier in February 2024, shocking footage of a drunken brawl between three passengers aboard a Ryanair flight from Edinburgh to Tenerife prompted some MailOnline commenters to call for the banning of alcohol on planes.
The video depicted two men fighting and spitting at each other. Passengers said they endured hours of abuse on the flight to the Spanish Island, in a fracas that seemed to have started with the two men - said to be brothers - arguing in the aisle.
Things turned violent after other passengers became involved. Footage showed a third man being yelled at before a woman launched an attack on another passenger.