FILE PHOTO: Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen in motion in the course of the first spherical. Motion Photographs by way of Reuters/Paul Childs
Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen grabbed a girl’s breast and urinated on a first-class seat after taking alcohol and sleeping drugs on a British Airways flight from the USA to London in 2019, a courtroom heard on Monday.
The Ryder Cup winner denies costs of sexual assault, assault by beating and being drunk on an plane.
British media reporting the beginning of his trial mentioned the courtroom heard how the Dane, now 31, allegedly pushed a cabin crew member in the course of the July 29 flight from Nashville to London’s Heathrow airport.
Olesen, a 5 occasions European Tour winner, mentioned he had no recollection of his conduct on the flight he boarded after competing within the World Golf Championships-FedEx St Jude invitational in Memphis.
British golfers Justin Rose and Ian Poulter had been additionally on board.
Cabin crew member Sarah White mentioned, in a press release learn in courtroom, that Olesen pushed her on the shoulder when she helped him again to his seat after he struggled to depart a bathroom.
“Through the flight Mr Olesen assaulted me and did not hearken to my directions,” she mentioned. “By my 27 years of service, I’ve by no means come throughout such dangerous behaviour on board a flight.”
A lady, who can’t be recognized as a result of she is an alleged sufferer of a intercourse offense, mentioned in a press release Olesen grabbed her hand and started kissing it.
“He had his proper hand round my again. He then grabbed my breast and moved his hand over my proper breast. I felt shocked,” the BBC quoted her as saying.
Again in his seat, Olesen awakened and urinated on one other passenger’s seat and aisle.
He was arrested on arrival and instructed police he had taken sleeping drugs and 5 or 6 drinks to “knock himself out.”
Poulter mentioned he helped take Olesen again to his seat.
“He appeared a bit of bit worse for put on and I simply assumed he had an excessive amount of to drink,” he added in a press release.
The trial at at Aldersgate Home Crown Court docket continues.
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