A passenger who caused drunken chaos on a flight from Cyrpus to Bournemouth has escaped prison, instead being given unpaid work and a suspended jail sentence.

Forty-nine year old Andrew Wiseman started throwing ice cubes after an argument with his partner, then head-butted a teenage boy on board the Thomson flight last May.

He also grabbed an off-duty police officer by the throat and pinned him against the wall, and caused damage to the custody van taking him to a police station after he landed.