Passenger Jailed for False Bomb Threat After Airline Cancels Wedding Trip

Adhnan Khalid was sentenced on Friday to seven months and 20 days in prison by Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, reports The Courier. Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith told the defendant that he deserved a heavy sentence due to the seriousness of the charges, but the prosecutor was flexible. The thirty-year-old said he regretted his act. In January, the accused had appeared before Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to answer the charges against him, reported Fife Today. "On October 1, 2019, the accused traveled to Tangier via Barcelona using the Spanish airline Vueling. During the trip, his luggage was lost and, as a result, he arrived in Tangier without it, which led him to cancel his wedding, planned due to the loss of the required documents," said the deputy prosecutor.

"On the return trip, he filed a claim with Vueling and received £277 in compensation, but he was not satisfied with it and felt that the incurred expenses, as well as the inconvenience, amounted to much more than the sum that had been paid to him," he continued, adding that he had sent an email and a number of messages to Vueling via Facebook. Without response. "On January 31, 2020 at 9:40 a.m., a post from a Facebook profile in the accused’s name appeared on Vueling Airlines’ Facebook wall. It read: ’You hope you’ll find the bombs that have been planted on Vueling flights departing from Spain. Good luck, you’ll need it. I was told next week it would be a flight from France’."

Another message was posted on the company’s wall around 10:05 a.m.: "It’s amazing to see how Vueling ignores crew and passenger health and safety information. Don’t take Vueling or Iberia flights." "When a Vueling security officer saw the messages, he hid them from public view to avoid alarming the public and contacted the