{"id":266416,"date":"2026-01-04T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266416\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:06:08","slug":"brit-accused-of-sex-act-on-emirates-flight-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266416\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit accused of sex act on Emirates flight pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britto Lorence, 27, appeared at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to outraging public decency<\/p>\n

Husna Anjum<\/strong> and David Huntley<\/strong><\/p>\n

17:05, 03 Jan 2026<\/p>\n

\"BrittoBritto Lorence, 27, appeared at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to outraging public decency(Image: Newcastle Chronicle)<\/p>\n

A British man is accused of a sex act on an Emirates flight. Britto Lorence of Abingdon Road, Middlesbrough, pled not guilty to masturbating on a flight travelling from Dubai to Newcastle last year.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the 27-year-old appeared at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court <\/a>charged with one count of outraging public decency. Chronicle Live <\/a>reports Lorence pleaded not guilty to the charge, which is alleged to have happened on June 2, 2025.<\/p>\n

Holly Clegg, prosecuting, told the court the incident was allegedly committed on an Emirates <\/a>flight that was heading to Newcastle Airport. Lorence will return to the court on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 6 for a trial.<\/p>\n

Lorence, of Abingdon Road, Middlesbrough, spoke only to confirm his personal details and to plead not guilty to the charge he faces. He was granted unconditional bail until his next court appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britto Lorence, 27, appeared at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to outraging public decency Husna Anjum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,27,715,83334,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-266416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-emirates","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115835566972289962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}