Sam Fox has been sentenced for public disorder after being arrested following a row on a plane.
The 58-year-old former Page 3 model was arrested at Heathrow Airport in December 2023 after a drunken row on a British Airways flight from London to Germany. Fox pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly at the airport on December 3 at an earlier court hearing.
She admitted using threatening behaviour, causing harrassment, alarm or distress to a police constable during the incident. The argument prevented the London to Hamburg flight from taking off, so passengers were put up in a hotel and moved to flights on the following day.
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Fox appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Monday (September 2), where it was heard that she’d told a police officer “I know where you live” and threatened to knock his teeth out after the incident. District judge Tan Ikram told Fox she had caused a “great inconvenience” for the airline and its passengers.
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He slapped the former Celeb Big Brother star with a 12-month community order, a £1,000 fine and up to 25 rehabilitation activity requirement days. He said: “In this case, the plane was still on the ground, but as a result of your behaviour the pilot – so that the aircraft would not be endangered – returned the aircraft to the stand.
“There, passengers disembarked and were unable to catch the flight that evening – (they) had to stay overnight and caught the first flight in the morning. There is a claim for compensation, but I note at this stage the great inconvenience that you caused all those passengers who were unable to catch that flight and that is separate from the financial loss that British Airways incurred as a result of your actions.”
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He added that her “abusive behaviour” towards a police officer was an aggravating factor. The judge ordered Fox to pay £1,718 and nine pence – the amount British Airwaves claim to have lost due to the incident – as well as £100 to Pc Smith, £85 in costs and a £114 victim surcharge.
Fox, who was cleared of assaulting her wife Linda Olsen during the incident, spent the night in a cell after being removed from the plane by authorities. She apologised for her actions, telling The Sun she was “deeply sorry for any disruption caused”.
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