A wealthy recruitment boss who threatened to gang rape and set alight a Virgin Atlantic stewardess has been jailed for 15 months.
Salman Iftikhar, 37, was staying in first class with his wife and three children when he unleashed a vile tirade on Angie Walsh at 39,000 feet during a flight from London Heathrow to Lahore.
The father, who had been binging on champagne, hurled death threats and racist abuse at cabin crew on the eight hour flight after he was told to stop helping himself to ice from the onboard bar.
He called Ms Walsh a ‘f*** b*’ several times and told her she would be dragged out of her hotel room, gang raped and set alight – comments which she said left her ‘broken’ and ‘traumatised’.
Iftikhar also tried to fight another steward and even threatened to blow up the floor of the Avari Lahore Hotel, where the cabin crew were due to stay.
In one clip of Iftikhar’s 100 rants during the trip, he can be heard repeatedly accusing Ms Walsh of being a racist and says: ‘You called me a p*ki in front of everybody.’
All this unfolded in front of Iftikhar’s wife and children who were crying and pleading for him to stop and had to be comforted by the cabin crew as he continued to hurl abuse for the entire flight.