Supermodel Campbell Gets 200 Hours For 'Air Spat'

Date: 06/21/08 | Singersroom News
Filed under: Fashion & Lifestyle, Naomi Campbell

So this time around she will not be sentenced to clean anything. Phone throwing model Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service Friday after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers after an "air rage" incident at Heathrow Airport.

She was also ordered to pay 400 to each of the police officers she attacked and $300 to Miles Sutherland, the captain of the British Airways plane she disrupted, in addition to a $4,600 fine.

Campbell could have received six months' jail time and a more hefty fine for the six offenses stemming from a violent spat in April with British Airways cabin crew and police who removed her from a flight in handcuffs while waiting on the tarmac at Heathrow.

Prosecutors said Campbell used foul language, kicked and spat at police, accused airline personnel of racism and threatened to sue them after she was told that one of her bags had not been placed on the flight to Los Angeles in April.

Source: AP