Two and a half year wait for plastered passenger trial

A businessman has denied assaulting an air steward and attacking other cabin crew after a vodka binge on a flight from Dubai. Murad Sabir, 42, was arrested at Heathrow after the eight hour British Airways flight on November 5 last year. Bespectacled Sabir, of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, denied one count of sexual assault and two counts of assault by beating today at Isleworth Crown Court. But Sabir admitted one count of entering an aircraft when drunk. He must now wait…