A 34-year-old Scottish man has been jailed after a drunken incident on a Thomas Cook flight from Glasgow to Dalaman.

Andrew Tosh, from Dundee, was given a nine-month sentence after admitting sexual assault, threatening and abusive behaviour, assault and being drunk on the aircraft at Lewes Crown Court, the BBC reported.

The flight had to be diverted to Gatwick so that Tosh could be removed.

“For the benefit of our customers’ and employees’ comfort and safety, we have a zero-tolerance approach to disruptive behaviour on our flights and, fortunately, incidents as serious as this are very rare,” a spokesperson for Thomas Cook Airlines said.

“Currently, our booking systems don’t give us the ability to ban disruptive passengers permanently but we fully assisted Sussex Police and the Crown Prosecution Service in bringing this case forward and hope the victims in the incident are satisfied with the outcome.”