At a previous hearing, Blofield pleaded guilty to being drunk on an aircraft, using threatening or abusive language to cabin crew, failing to comply with the pilot’s instructions and an offence under the Public Order Act of using threatening abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
Sam Louwers, mitigating, explained the defendant had lost his medication for back pain, depression and anxiety ahead of the flight to Poland and turned to alcohol for the trip home.
“Ultimately, Mr Blofield was a man who has come from a difficult background and eventually found himself in Poland due to tracing of family roots,” he said.
Louwers described Blofield’s decision to settle his nerves with alcohol as “incredibly foolish”, adding he had “no recollection” of the incident.