A Cambridge lecturer who has advised the UN on migration and refugees has avoided jail after calling a passenger a ‘jihadist’ on board a British Airways flight.
Dr Adam Coutts, 48, told Hammad Aziz that he should ‘shave his beard’ and that he looked ‘like a jihadist’ after Mr Aziz tried to intervene in a conversation between Coutts and another passenger.
The academic added during the drunken rant: ‘You should go to Birmingham to blow yourself up,’ before accusing Mr Aziz and his wife, Fatima Hashim, of being in an illegal marriage.
Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court heard that Coutts, a married father-of-two, then became
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