{"id":686187,"date":"2026-01-10T06:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686187\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:43:19","slug":"man-to-appear-in-court-accused-of-being-drunk-on-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686187\/","title":{"rendered":"Man to appear in court accused of being drunk on aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Blofield was en-route to Bristol Airport from Poland when alleged offence occurred<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1_GettyImages-1284952458-1.jpg\" alt=\"File image of Bristol Airport\" loading=\"eager\"  \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"File image of Bristol Airport\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">File image of Bristol Airport(Image: Allen Baxter\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man has been charged with a number of offences following an investigation into an incident during a flight to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/bristol-airport\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Bristol Airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Stephen Blofield, from Haverfordwest, has been charged with being drunk on an aircraft, using threatening\/abusive language to crew and failing to comply with commanders\u2019 instructions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Avon and Somerset Police have said the charge relates to an incident onboard a flight from Krakow to Bristol on Tuesday, November 11, last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The 61-year-old has been released on bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He is due to appear at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/north-somerset\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">North Somerset<\/a> Courthouse on Tuesday, February 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Blofield was en-route to Bristol Airport from Poland when alleged offence occurred File image of Bristol Airport(Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,21283,61809,748,30,188,393,4884,956,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-airport","10":"tag-bristol-international-airport","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-north-somerset","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115869450474982677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}