British passenger arrested on suspicion of raping woman in business class on US flight to Heathrow

[marmar]

A British man has been arrested on suspicion of raping a passenger on a flight from the US to Heathrow.

Officers boarded the United Airlines flight at Heathrow airport after being alerted to the incident just after 6:30am on Monday 31, January.

A 40-year-old woman, also British, reportedly complained to United Airlines cabin staff on the New Jersey to Heathrow flight after she was allegedly forced to have sex in business class while others were asleep. ...............(more)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/united-airlines-flight-rape-business-class-b2010962.html

[lagomorph777]

1. Andrew?

[malaise]

5. He likes them much younger n/t

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[Carlitos Brigante]

2. K&R! nt

[milestogo]

4. ?

[Carlitos Brigante]

6. What is it you don't get about recommending an article? nt

[milestogo]

13. I don't get recommending a rape.

[Carlitos Brigante]

14. Oh, I see. You're having an argument with yourself. Carry on. nt

[marmar]

15. The rec is for the article, not the rape.

[Carlitos Brigante]

17. Next time I'll have to write "K&R for visibility (Disclaimer: I am kicking and recommending this

article so people can notice it more. I am in no way a supporter of (fill in the blank___________ voter suppression, corruption, racism, murder.......)."

Maybe that'll do it

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Recs are for the post, not for the act. Duh. You never rec'ed an article about a tRump atrocity?

[MineralMan]

3. I can't imagine anyone doing such a stupid thing.

Truly I cannot. That doesn't mean that I don't believe it happened, of course. It's a lot of really stupid people out there.

[COL Mustard]

16. People do stupid things all the time.

They think they're too smart to get caught. Or they don't care if they get caught.

[zaj]

7. How is this even possible.

I mean, I completely believe her and support her ❤️🤗.

But the last place in can imagine anyone would try to rape anyone is in a crowded airplane. I can't even imagine how that can happen.

Crazy and awful.

[unweird]

9. Business Class Seating

Includes lie-flat seats usually for long flights. They are fairly isolated from each other and afford a certain amount of privacy.

[BlackSkimmer]

8. I've flown first class. How is it that she couldn't have yelled for cabin crew? Or pressed the call

button?

Perhaps more information will be provided. Rather shocking to think something like that could happen aboard an aircraft.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Any number of reasons. She may not have felt safe doing so. People are conditioned to not

make a fuss. The two of them had reportedly been seen drinking together in the lounge earlier in the evening; she may have thought no one would believe her in the moment. It may have started as a consensual act, then something changed, making it difficult to know how to react. She may have been so drunk that she couldn't figure out what to do next.

[BlackSkimmer]

25. Yes, I can imagine some of that.

It’s just that the flight attendants are pretty attentive in both business and first.

Amazing they wouldn’t notice. And if I were a fellow passenger, consensual or not, I’d object to that going on near me.

Maybe a near empty flight.

[Hortensis]

18. Maybe she could. Or couldn't. Victims remaining mostly silent

during rape happens for a variety of reasons and is not uncommon. Shocking, all right. Bad things aren't supposed to happen in society's safe places. Hopefully investigation will produce good evidence one way or another.

[Dial H For Hero]

11. Business class is certainly more private than economy, but it's still strange that this

happened without the flight attendants noticing. Even while the passengers are asleep, they go up and down the aisles on a fairly regular basis.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. They may have thought it was consensual.

[MineralMan]

20. Flight attendants see lots of things.

People do have sex on airline flights. It's not really that uncommon, especially at night on redeye flights. Often, flight attendants will just look the other way, rather than causing a scene, I think.

I'd think, though, if someone was loudly objecting to some sexual activity, a flight attendant would have something to say about it.

[enid602]

19. Masks

With masks no less.

[iemanja]

22. Where were the flight attendents?

Shouldn't they have intervened?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. They may have thought it was consensual.

[TuxedoKat]

24. On a long flight

after all service is done, FA's will sit down and take a break and/or eat a meal. The man probably committed his crime then.