![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/british-expat-sexually-assaults-girl-on-easyjet-flight-and-almost-diverts-plane/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1_Court-snatch-of-Andrew-Reay.jpg&description=Andrew Reay, 46, fondled the teenager's leg and offered to pay her for sex during the deeply uncomfortable four-hour flight from Lanzarote to Manchester, where she had "no escape"Andrew Reay, has admitted sexually touching a woman while aboard an Easyjet flight, bound for Manchester in September 2020. A middle-aged British ex-pat who molested a teenage stranger on a plane and nearly forced the easyJet flight to divert has dodged prison. Businessman Andrew Reay, 46, fondled the 17-year old Spanish girl's leg and suggested he pay her for sex whilst ordering from an inflight drinks menu after he sat down by her when she moved seats before take off. During the nightmare four-hour journey from Lanzarote to Manchester, balding Reay who runs a sightseeing ticket agency on the island, said he wanted to be 'super friendly' with her. He was also 'manspreading' - a term referring to the practice of men sitting in public transport with legs wide apart - in his seat so the girl could barely move. The teenager was made to feel 'horrible' after the 46-year-old touched her ( Manchester Evening News) He told her: "It's a shame you're only 17" before boasting of taking drugs ahead of the flight, saying: "joints aren't hard enough for me, I put a bit of white powder in them to make them harder." The girl, a college student who said to be "deeply uncomfortable" at Reay's unwanted advances on the 2020 flight, eventually alerted staff when he began stroking her inner thigh for up to 11 seconds as she asked him to stop. He was subsequently moved to the front of the plane but fell asleep in a drunken stupor. It emerged another passenger sitting nearby had complained as his autistic son was getting agitated at Reay's behaviour on the aircraft. Easyjet staff made arrangements for the company boss who lives in Tias, Las Palmas to be arrested when he touched down at Manchester Airport. He was about to visit family in Crewe, Cheshire. The girl, who cannot be named, said the experience was so "h){kind=link}
Andrew Reay, 46, fondled the teenager’s leg and offered to pay her for sex during the deeply uncomfortable four-hour flight from Lanzarote to Manchester, where she had “no escape”
A middle-aged British ex-pat who molested a teenage stranger on a plane and nearly forced the easyJet flight to divert has dodged prison.
Businessman Andrew Reay, 46, fondled the 17-year old Spanish girl’s leg and suggested he pay her for sex whilst ordering from an inflight drinks menu after he sat down by her when she moved seats before take off.
During the nightmare four-hour journey from Lanzarote to Manchester, balding Reay who runs a sightseeing ticket agency on the island, said he wanted to be ‘super friendly’ with her.
He was also ‘manspreading’ – a term referring to the practice of men sitting in public transport with legs wide apart – in his seat so the girl could barely move.