Golfer blames sleeping pills for first class outrage at 30,000ft

Danish golfer Thorbjørn Olesen said he had an adverse reaction to sleeping pills when he grabbed a woman’s breasts and urinated in the aisle on a transatlantic flight. The 31-year-old pro is on trial for sexual assault and other offences in the first class section of a BA flight to London, but claims he was acting ‘as an automaton’ when he mixed the pills with alcohol. He told the court he took two Ambien tablets on his flight from Nashville,…

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