It all started when Bernard Timothy Pompey fell asleep on the aeroplane and the pilot of the connecting flight refused to take him on board, leading to him making a scene at the Aerodrome of the Grantley Adams International Airport.
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Pompey, 37, of Grand Bay, Canouan, St Vincent ended up on four charges before Magistrate Douglas Frederick at the District “B” Magistrates’ Court on Monday. He pleaded guilty to assaulting airport security officers Bertram Holder and Mark Bovell, Constable Kenrick King, and using threatening words towards the policeman by telling him: “I will shoot you, bite out your throat and drink the blood.”
Sergeant Ralph Rollock told the court that Pompey arrived in Barbados on an Inter-Caribbean flight on July 5, and was in transit to board another flight back to St Vincent. He was the last passenger off the plane and when he went to the second flight, the pilot observed that he seemed intoxicated and informed the ground lead agent that Pompey would not be allowed on the flight.
This was told to Pompey and he became irritated and aggressive toward the ground staff. Two security officers from the airport were summoned, Holder and Bovell, and they repeated to Pompey that he would be unable to fly. However, Pompey insisted he was going home on that aeroplane, dropped his bag on the ground and shouted that the captain did not buy his ticket and could not stop him from getting on the aircraft. (SD)
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