{"id":34417,"date":"2019-03-06T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34417"},"modified":"2019-03-06T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:22:18","slug":"lawyer-has-racist-rant-on-air-india-flight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34417","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer has racist rant on Air India flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A lawyer who subjected aircraft crew to &#8220;prolonged&#8221; racist abuse on a November flight from Mumbai to London was convicted of assault Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Uxbridge Magistrates&#8217; Court heard that Simone Burns, who goes by Simone O&#8217;Broin, also spat at a crew member and grabbed her by the arm after staff refused to serve her more alcohol, the UK&#8217;s Press Association news agency reported<strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Burns, from Hove, England, began her racist rant on the Air India flight when flight attendants declined to sell her a fourth bottle of wine. Prosecutor Lauren Smith told Uxbridge Magistrates&#8217; Court that Burns, who is 50, began &#8220;swearing and shouting,&#8221; calling the flight crew &#8220;f***ing Indian money-grabbing c***s.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A lawyer who subjected aircraft crew to &#8220;prolonged&#8221; racist abuse on a November flight from Mumbai to London was convicted of assault Wednesday.Uxbridge Magistrates&#8217; Court heard that Simone Burns, who goes by Simone O&#8217;Broin, also spat at a crew member and grabbed her by the arm after staff refused to serve her more alcohol, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}