Irish woman who abused Air India crew found dead at her London home

An Irish international human rights lawyer, who was jailed after being caught on camera hurling abusive rants at Air India crew on a flight from Mumbai to London, has been found de just days after her release from prison in UK.

Simone Burns, who was sentenced to six months in April after racially abusing and spitting at crew for being refused alcohol mid-air last year, is thought to have committed suicide. 50-year-old was released from Bronzefield women's prison on licence, or parole, on May 20 and was found de at foot of Beachy He cliffs in East Sussex, in south-east of England, 13 days later.

" body of a woman found at Beachy He on June 1 has been identified as Simone Burns from Hove," a local Sussex Police spokesperson said. " death is t being treated as suspicious and next of kin have been informed. matter has been passed to coroner's officer, spokesperson said.

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barrister, who was born in Belfast in rrn Ireland and also used surname O'Broin, h pleed guilty to being drunk on an aircraft and assault during a hearing at Isleworth Crown Court in London back in April.

Following her death, friends said that sentence h a severe impact on Burns, whose mid-air rant went viral on social media. It emerged in court that she spat at a flight attendant during her foul-moud racist tire after she was refused alcohol mid-air in vember last.

" experience of a drunk and irrational person in confines of an aircraft is frightening, t least on a long-haul flight, and poses a potential risk to safety, said Judge Nicholas Wood, as he sentenced Burns to six months in prison for being drunk on an aircraft and two months for assault, sentences to run concurrently. "You were drunk and obxious almost from beginning to end. You were abusive, contemptuous and confrontational and used appalling langu, he said.

Burns, born in rrn Ireland and living in Hove in England, was also ordered to pay 300 pounds compensation to person she assaulted, with judge saying that "spitting straight into a crew member's face at close range is a particularly insulting and upsetting act". A member of Air India cabin crew described her conduct as unlike anything he h seen during his 34-year aviation career.

judge at Isleworth Crown Court said he was satisfied offence was racially aggravated and langu Burns used would have been extremely upsetting for airline staff.

ting Simone Burns' work with refugees around world, Judge Wood ded: "You are a woman, t just of good character but a positive and impeccable character a righter of wrongs. What this has done, thanks to social media, (has meant) you have h death threats and been a hermit in your home. You are a person who has done good work throughout your life." 

Burns' defence lawyer suggested that her actions were due to a "mixture of altitude, consumption of drink and anxiety" at fact that she was likely to miss funeral of an uncle. Mark Kimsey told court that his client was "totally ashamed of her behaviour". "This is t a ly who has a drink problem. This is t a woman who has a drug problem. This is totally out of character," he said.

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