Ryanair passenger downed beers and wine before 6am flight and attacked cabin crew after refusing to sit down

A businessman and Boxing coach who caused a flight to turn back just minutes into its journey after attacking two air stewardesses says he was so drunk he can't remember being on the plane.

Dad-of-one Mohammed Hussain, 35, left kids in tears after sparking the melee by refusing to sit down with fellow passengers whose holidays he disrupted cheering as he was hauled off the plane.

Hussain, from East Yorkshire, was jetting off on his first holiday with his partner and had downed six beers and some wine before boarding the 6am Ryanair flight to Faro on Portugal's Algarve coast last September, a court heard.

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The plane took off with no issues but after being in the air for just three minutes, whilst the fasten seatbelt signs were still switched on, Hussain stood up and demanded to use the toilet.

Cabin crew pleaded with him to sit down but he refused, Manchester Crown Court was told. The captain, who by law had to remain in the cockpit, also asked him over the speaker system for him to return to his seat as did a number of other nearby passengers.

Yet he insisted he wanted to use the toilets, which were locked. A 'fracas' ensued during which he pushed two female members of the cabin crew who had to 'compromise their own safety' in a bid to get him to sit down, the court was told. Children on the plane were left in tears during the commotion, Miss Bennet said.

The captain decided to turn back to Manchester Airport due to the 'level two psychical violence disruptive passenger incident' and it landed back at Terminal 3 ten minutes after taking off, Hayley Bennett prosecuting, said.

Police boarded the plane and detained Hussain who was verbally